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ABOUT THE BOOK:- The author tries to bring out what he believes are the salient point in Native American religion, the misrepresentation and misunderstanding by the “white man”. Eastman makes some good point, regarding the hypocrisy of the white man’s Christianity, specially arising out of the expression presented to the Indian that the American Government was Christian. As author says, The Indian, might in time come to recognize that the drunkard and the licentious among white men, with whom he too frequently came in contact, were condemned by the white man’s religion as well and must not be held to discredit it. In this book the author explain that any murderer knew that his deed would be known by the “Great mystery” and so no effort was extended by such a person to try to hide the fact of the deed consequently, the action was normally freely admitted by the guilty party.