Charles Eastman
  • More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  • The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

  • The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

  • In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.