Vine Deloria Jr.'s Books

Custer Died For Your Sins

By: Vine Deloria

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Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This “manifesto” provides valuable insights on American Indian history, Native American culture, and context for minority protest movements mobilizing across the country throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally published in 1969, this book remains a timeless classic and is one of the most significant nonfiction works written by a Native American.

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1501188232

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The Nations Within

The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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The Nations Within

The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today. “Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing drama and also as its most knowledgeable interpreter. This new book on Indian self-rule is the most informative that I have seen in my own half-century of reading. Deloria and his co-author focus on John Collier’s struggle with both the U.S. Congress and the Indian tribes to develop a New Deal for Indians fifty years ago. It is a blow-by-blow historical account, perhaps unique in the literature, which may be the only way to show the full complexity of American Indian relations with federal and state governments. This makes it possible in two brilliant concluding chapters to clarify Indian points of view and to build onto initiatives that Indians have already taken to suggest which of these might be most useful for them to pursue. The unheeded message has been clear throughout history, but now we see how—if we let Indians do it their way—they might more quickly than we have imagined rebuild their communities.” —Sol Tax, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Chicago

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0307831841

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9780307831842

God Is Red

A Native View of Religion

By: Vine Deloria Jr.

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God Is Red

A Native View of Religion

By: Vine Deloria Jr.

A 50th anniversary revised edition of the beloved classic, God is Red. First published in 1973, Vine Deloria, Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native American religious views, asking the reader to think about our species and our ultimate fate in novel ways. Celebrating five decades of publication with this new edition, Deloria's classic work reminds us to understand "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no responsibilities to the natural world." It is time again to listen to Vine Deloria, Jr.'s powerful voice, informing us about a spiritual life that is independent of Western religion and that reveres the interconnectedness of all living things. This new edition includes critical essays engaging with the original material by well-known Indigenous thinkers - Philip Deloria, Suzan Shown Harjo, Daniel Wildcat, and David E. Wilkins. Inside, the book covers a wide variety of topics including: the problem of creation, the origin of religion, Death, and Human personality. "God is Red should be read and re-read by Americans who want to understand why the United States keeps losing the peace, war after war." – Leslie Marmon Silko

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1682753662

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Destroying Dogma

Vine Deloria, Jr. and His Influence on American Society

By: Vine Deloria

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Destroying Dogma

Vine Deloria, Jr. and His Influence on American Society

By: Vine Deloria

Paying tribute to the late Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr., "Destroying Dogma" follows the ripples of thought set in motion by Deloria's visionary words. This collection of essays by prominent writers and intellectuals demonstrates the breadth and influence of Deloria's life work. While covering a diverse array of topics, such as religious freedom, evolution, and the direction of leadership in Native communities, the essays all share Deloria's enduring notion that dogma is the enemy of critical thinking. Steve Pavlik teaches science at Tucson Preparatory School and is an adjunt faculty member in geopgraphy for Pima Community College. He has published extensively in the field of American Indian studies and is the editor of "A Good Cherokee," "A Good Anthropologist: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Thomas.

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The World We Used to Live In

Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men

By: Vine Deloria Jr.,Philip J. Deloria

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The World We Used to Live In

Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men

By: Vine Deloria Jr.,Philip J. Deloria

In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.

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1555918476

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We Talk, You Listen

New Tribes, New Turf

By: Vine Deloria

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We Talk, You Listen

New Tribes, New Turf

By: Vine Deloria

We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insightful Indian spokesman turns his penetrating vision toward the disintegrating core of American society. Written at a time when the traditions of the formerly omnipotent Anglo-Saxon male were crumbling under the pressures of a changing world, Deloria's book interprets racial conflict, inflation, the ecological crisis, and power groups as symptoms rather than causes of the American malaise: "The glittering generalities and mythologies of American society no longer satisfy the need and desire to belong," a theory as applicable today as it was in 1970. American Indian tribalism, according to Deloria, was positioned to act as America's salvation. Deloria proposes a uniquely Indian solution to the legacy of genocide, imperialism, capitalism, feudalism, and self-defeating liberalism: group identity and real community development, a kind of neo-tribalism. He also offers a fascinating cultural critique of the nascent "tribes" of the 1970s, indicting Chicanos, blacks, hippies, feminists, and others as misguided because they lacked comprehensive strategies and were led by stereotypes rather than an understanding of their uniqueness. Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux, 1933-2005) was the author of more than twenty books, including Custer Died for Your Sins, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties, and God Is Red. Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Muscogee) is a poet, lecturer, curator, columnist for Indian Country Today, policy advocate, and president of the Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization.

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0803259859

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Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties

An Indian Declaration of Independence

By: Vine Deloria

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Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties

An Indian Declaration of Independence

By: Vine Deloria

Originally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes. Analyzing the history of Indian treaty relations with the United States, Vine Deloria presents population and land ownership information to support his argument that many Indian tribes have more impressive landholdings than some small members of the United Nations. Yet American Indians are not even accorded status within the UN's trust territories recognition process. A 2000 study published by the Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law recommends that the United Nations offer membership to the Iroquois, Cherokee, Navajo, and other Indian tribes. Ironically, the study also recommends that smaller tribes band together to form a confederation to seek membership—a suggestion nearly identical to the one the United States made to the Delaware Indians in 1778—and that a presidential commission explore ways to move beyond the Doctrine of Discovery, under which European nations justified their confiscation of Indian lands. Many of these ideas appear here in this book, which predates the 2000 study by twenty-six years. Thus, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties anticipates recent events as history comes full circle, making the book imperative reading for anyone wishing to understand the background of the movement of American Indians onto the world political stage. In the quarter century since this book was written, Indian nations have taken great strides in demonstrating their claims to recognized nationhood. Together with Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations, by Deloria and David E. Wilkins, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties highlights the historical events that helped bring these changes to fruition. At the conclusion of Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties, Deloria states: "The recommendations made in the Twenty Points and the justification for such a change as articulated in the book may well come to pass in our lifetime." Now we are seeing his statement come true.

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0292789467

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For This Land

Writings on Religion in America

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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For This Land

Writings on Religion in America

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1135263329

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Red Earth, White Lies

Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Red Earth, White Lies

Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers an alternative view of the continent's history as seen through the eyes and memories of Native Americans. Further, he warns future generations of scientists not to repeat the ethnocentric omissions and fallacies of the past by dismissing Native oral tradition as mere legends.

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For This Land

Writings on Religion in America

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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For This Land

Writings on Religion in America

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

First Published in 1999. For This Land, edited and with an introduction by James Treat, brings together over thirty years of the work of Vine Deloria, Jr., regarded as one of the most important living Native American figures. For three decades, Deloria has offered substantive and persistent contributions to understanding the complexity of religion in America. In uis writings he recognizes the spiritual desperation and religious breakdown in the contemporary situation, and provides the groundwork to get people to examine what they actually believe and how they must put those beliefs into practice. The essays in this collection express Deloria's concern for the religious dimensions and implications of human existence. His writings are engaged within a theoretical system of physical, not ideological, space, and ultimately give voice to this intellectual passion by calling into question our controversial religious institutions, commitments, worldviews, freedoms and experiences. For This Land offers a distinctive approach to comprehending human existence from one of the leading critics of mainstream American thought.

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Destroying Dogma

Vine Deloria, Jr. and His Influence on American Society

By: Vine Deloria

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Destroying Dogma

Vine Deloria, Jr. and His Influence on American Society

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The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Daniel Wildcat,David Wilkins

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The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Daniel Wildcat,David Wilkins

Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.

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The Nations Within

The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty

By: Vine Deloria,Clifford M. Lytle

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The Nations Within

The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty

By: Vine Deloria,Clifford M. Lytle

Traces relations between American Indians and early settlers and analyzes government policy

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0292715986

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We Talk, You Listen

New Tribes, New Turf

By: Vine Deloria

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New Tribes, New Turf

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Power and Place

Indian Education in America

By: Vine Deloria,Daniel R. Wildcat,Daniel Wildcat

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Power and Place

Indian Education in America

By: Vine Deloria,Daniel R. Wildcat,Daniel Wildcat

Formal Indian education in America stretches all the way from reservation preschools to prestigious urban universities. "Power and Place" examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of 16 essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary.

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The World We Used to Live In

Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men

By: Vine Deloria Jr.,Philip J. Deloria

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Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men

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Spirit & Reason

The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader

By: Vine Deloria

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Spirit & Reason

The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader

By: Vine Deloria

Annotation This collection of Deloria's writings from books, essays, and articles, as well as previously unpublished pieces, celebrates Deloria's influential career.

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Red Earth, White Lies

Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

By: Vine Deloria

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Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

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God Is Red

A Native View of Religion

By: Vine Deloria Jr.

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A Native View of Religion

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Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations

By: Vine Deloria,David E. Wilkins

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Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations

By: Vine Deloria,David E. Wilkins

Federal Indian law . . . is a loosely related collection of past and present acts of Congress, treaties and agreements, executive orders, administrative rulings, and judicial opinions, connected only by the fact that law in some form has been applied haphazardly to American Indians over the course of several centuries. . . . Indians in their tribal relation and Indian tribes in their relation to the federal government hang suspended in a legal wonderland." In this book, two prominent scholars of American Indian law and politics undertake a full historical examination of the relationship between Indians and the United States Constitution that explains the present state of confusion and inconsistent application in U.S. Indian law. The authors examine all sections of the Constitution that explicitly and implicitly apply to Indians and discuss how they have been interpreted and applied from the early republic up to the present. They convincingly argue that the Constitution does not provide any legal rights for American Indians and that the treaty-making process should govern relations between Indian nations and the federal government.

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0292789459

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C. G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions

Dreams, Visions, Nature and the Primitave

By: Vine Deloria

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C. G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions

Dreams, Visions, Nature and the Primitave

By: Vine Deloria

While visiting the United States, C. G. Jung visited the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, where he spent several hours with Ochwiay Biano, Mountain Lake, an elder at the Pueblo. This encounter impacted Jung psychologically, emotionally, and intellectually, and had a sustained influence on his theories and understanding of the psyche. Dakota Sioux intellectual and political leader, Vine Deloria Jr., began a close study of the writings of C. G. Jung over two decades ago, but had long been struck by certain affinities and disjunctures between Jungian and Sioux Indian thought. He also noticed that many Jungians were often drawn to Native American traditions. This book, the result of Deloria's investigation of these affinities, is written as a measured comparison between the psychology of C. G. Jung and the philosophical and cultural traditions of the Sioux people. Deloria constructs a fascinating dialogue between the two systems that touches on cosmology, the family, relations with animals, visions, voices, and individuation.

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1682753239

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God is Red

A Native View of Religion

By: Vine Deloria

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God is Red

A Native View of Religion

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The seminal work on Native religious views, asking questions about our species and our ultimate fate.

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1555914985

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American Indians, American Justice

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Clifford M. Lytle

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American Indians, American Justice

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Clifford M. Lytle

Looks at how American Indians are using the courts to settle matters relating to self-determination, cultural preservation, lost land, and basic human rights

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029273834X

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The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Daniel Wildcat,David Wilkins

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The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

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The Legal Universe

Observations of the Foundations of American Law

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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The Legal Universe

Observations of the Foundations of American Law

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

According to Deloria and Wilkins, "Whenever American minorities have raised voices of protest, they have been admonished to work within the legal system that seek its abolition." This essential work examines the historical evolution of the legal rights of various minority groups and the relationship between these rights and the philosophical intent of the American founders.

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1555917585

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Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths

A Critical Inquiry

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths

A Critical Inquiry

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

Using the tension between evolutionists and creationists in Kansas in the late 1990s as a focal point, Deloria takes Western science and religion to task, providing a critical assessment of the flaws and anomalies in each side's arguments.

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Custer Died For Your Sins

By: Vine Deloria

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Custer Died For Your Sins

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Indians of the Pacific Northwest

From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Billy Frank,Steve Pavlik

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Indians of the Pacific Northwest

From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.,Billy Frank,Steve Pavlik

The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today.

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1555917658

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Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths

A Critical Inquiry

By: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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A Critical Inquiry

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