Charles A. Eastman was a Wahpeton Dakota born in Minnesota in 1858. After working as a doctor on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he started to write about his life and the stories he remembered. Eastman published many books containing traditional American Indian stories. Elaine Goodale Eastman was born in 1863 in Massachusetts, USA. She moved to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to teach when she was twenty-two years old. There she married Charles Eastman and later became his editor and co-writer.