Childhood memories of a Sioux Indian who could still grow and be educated in an environment full red skin. A free life in the midst of a grandiose nature, all evoked with the strength and lyricism of authentic experience.

Charles Eastman (1858- 1939), but had part of European blood, born and raised among Wahpeton Sioux. His maternal grandfather was a known white artist and both his maternal great-grandfather and his father were important sioux chiefs. Until the age of fifteen, he lived a full Indian life, away from any contact with the white world, a life of nomadic hunters and warriors. His education corresponded therefore a kind of traditional life disappeared long ago. After joining the white world, Eastman (or Ohiyesa, its Indian name) followed the usual studies and reached a degree in medicine, activity exercised in the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, at all times helping his brothers of race. He wrote a total of eleven books that released their experiences and knowledge of the world redskin.

Life in the woods an autobiographical book in which Eastman recounts, with great vividness and pleasantness, his memories of those years led fascinating lives of children is Redskins. In a natural environment of the beautiful and full of dangers time, the small Indian followed in the footsteps of their elders and, between games and adventures, it was formed to become one day the stoic and courageous warrior who all admire today. Hunts, attacks by hostile tribes, the rigors and beauty of forests and grasslands, the constant presence of animals, legends and stories of military exploits ... everything, in short, what constituted the legendary world offers the reader in a work full of life that bears the unmistakable stamp of authentic experience.