Vine Deloria, Jr.

Vine Deloria Jr. ( born March 26, 1933, Martin, South Dakota, † November 13, 2005 in Golden, Colorado ) was an Indian- American legal and political scientist, author and activist. In his most famous work Custer Died for Your Sins ( " Custer died for your sins " ) from 1969, he criticized the treatment of the Indians by the U.S. government and the ethnologist.

Life

The Lakota Indians Deloria grew up in the Standing Rock Reservation. After completing his theological studies at Iowa State University he graduated 1964 to 1967 to study law at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He hoped at this time to better assist you as a lawyer to his people, but later hit a career in university teaching one.

During his education Deloria was an activist for the rights of Indians. He published a number of highly acclaimed books on the Rights of the Indians. He was a member of various Indian organizations, board member of the National Museum of the American Indian as well as director of the National Congress of American Indians ( NCAI ), and received in 2002 the prestigious Wallace Stegner Award from the Center of the American West. At various universities, he taught political science and history.

In the last decade of his life Deloria also devoted himself increasingly to criticism of the U.S. scientific institutions - especially paleoanthropology - from native point of view. So he turned in 1995 vehemently opposed to the conventional notions for recent, endglazialen Initial colonization of North America via the Bering Strait, and denied decided the thesis that the North American megafauna was wiped out by the ancestors of today's Native Americans. Finally, in his last major, published in 2002, work he presented a critical and negative view of both the theory of evolution and the Christian creationism.

Bibliography

  • Aggression of civilization: federal Indian policy since the 1880s. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1984.
  • American Indian policy in the twentieth century. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1985.
  • American Indians, American justice. University of Texas Press, Austin 1983.
  • Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: an Indian declaration of independence. Dell Publishing Co., New York 1974.
  • A Better Day for Indians. Field Foundation, New York 1976.
  • A brief history of the Federal responsibility to the American Indian. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington 1979.
  • Custer died for your sins: an Indian manifesto. Macmillan, New York, 1969 edition. B & T 2003, ISBN 0-8061-2129-7
  • For this country: writings on religion in America. Routledge, New York 1999.
  • Frank Waters: man and mystic. Swallow Press: Ohio University Press, Athens 1993.
  • God is red: a native view of religion. North American Press, Golden, Colorado in 1994, dt God is red. An Indian provocation. Dianus - Trikont Verlag, Munich 1984, reprint: Lamuv 1996, ISBN 3-88977-459-8
  • The Indian affair. Friendship Press, New York 1974.
  • Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Doubleday, New York 1977.
  • The metaphysics of modern existence. Harper & Row, San Francisco 1979.
  • The nations within: the past and future of American Indian sovereignty. Pantheon Books, New York 1984.
  • Of utmost good faith. Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco 1971.
  • Red earth, white lies: Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact. Scibner, New York 1995.
  • The red one in the new world drama: a politico -legal study with a pageantry of American Indian history. Macmillan, New York 1971.
  • Reminiscences of Vine Deloria V., Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota 1970 New York Times oral history program. American Indian oral history research project. Part II; no 82
  • The right to know: a paper. Office of Library and Information Services, U.S. Dept.. of the Interior, Washington, D.C. In 1978.
  • A sender of words: essays in memory of John G. Neihardt. Howe Brothers, Salt Lake City 1984.
  • Singing for a spirit: a portrait of the Dakota Sioux. Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe, N.M. In 1999.
  • Spirit and reason: the Vine Deloria, Jr., reader. Fulcrum Pub, Golden, Colorado 1999.
  • Tribes, treaties, and constitutional tribulations ( with David E. Wilkins ), University of Texas Press, Austin, 1999.
  • We talk, you listen; new tribes, new turf. Macmillan, New York 1970. Ger Only tribes will survive. Indian proposals for a radical cure of the crazed West. Trikont - Verlag, Munich, 1976 edition: Lamuv 1996, ISBN 3- 88977-427 X -
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