19 Facts About Goodale Sisters

Elaine Goodale taught at the Indian Department of Hampton Institute, started a day school on a Dakota reservation in 1886, and was appointed as Superintendent of Indian Education for the Two Dakotas by 1890.

Goodale Sisters married Dr Charles Eastman, a Santee Sioux who was the first Native American to graduate from medical school and become a physician.

Goodale Sisters collaborated with him in writing about his childhood and Sioux culture; his nine books were popular and made him a featured speaker on a public lecture circuit.

Goodale Sisters continued her own writing, publishing her last book of poetry in 1930, and a biography and last novel in 1935.

Dora Read Goodale Sisters published a book of poetry at age 21 and continued to write.

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Goodale Sisters became a teacher of art and English in Connecticut.

Goodale Sisters attracted positive reviews when she published her last book of poetry at age 75 in 1941, in which she combined modernist free verse with the use of Appalachian dialect to express her neighbors' traditional lives.

Dora Read Goodale Sisters was the daughter of a notable colonial family, and Henry Goodale Sisters could trace his family tree all the way back to 1632, to an ancestor who settled in Salem, Massachusetts.

Goodale Sisters married James A Dayton and preserved much of the family's history and manuscripts.

Goodale Sisters taught a new group of 100 Native American students from the West.

In 1885 Goodale Sisters made a tour through the Sioux Reservation, as she wanted to learn more about her students' world.

Goodale Sisters strongly supported educating children at day schools on the reservations rather than sending them away to boarding schools.

In 1890 Goodale Sisters was appointed Superintendent of Indian Education for the Two Dakotas for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Goodale Sisters managed his lecture tours and associated publicity, as he had about 25 lectures annually.

Goodale Sisters Eastman continued to write, publishing four books after her separation from Charles: The Luck of Old Acres, a novel about a summer camp; and her last book of poems, The Voice at Eve, which included a biographical essay entitled "All the Days of My Life".

Goodale Sisters published numerous articles, letters and book reviews in a variety of journals.

Goodale Sisters Eastman had written a memoir about her experiences as a school teacher of the Sioux called Sister to the Sioux.

Goodale Sisters became a teacher of art and English in Reading, Connecticut, which her mother's family had settled.

Goodale Sisters never married, but she and her sister Elaine exchanged numerous letters over the decades in which they examined the various alternatives for women.