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According to Wikipedia , Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights. He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto , which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement. From 1964 to 1967, he served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, increasing its membership of tribes from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the National Museum of the American Indian, which now has buildings in both New York City and in Washington, DC, on the Mall.
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1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 Published Works Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (1994) Power and Place: Indian Education in America (1991) (522)Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact (1997) The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty (1984) God Is Red (1972) American Indians, American Justice (1984) The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men (2006) (105)The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains (1994) Native American testimony : a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-2000 (1993) American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. (1987) Spirit & Reason the Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader (1999) (82)Indians, Archaeologists, and the Future (1992) Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence (1974) Intellectual Self-Determination and Sovereignty: Looking at the Windmills in Our Minds. (1998) Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations (1999) Commentary: Research, Redskins, and Reality. (1991) (61)For This Land : Writings on Religion in America (1999) Relativity, Relatedness and Reality. (1992) (41)Research, Redskins, and Reality (1991) Team spirits : the Native American mascots controversy (2001) (32)Ethnoscience and Indian Realities. (1992) (29)Documents of American Indian diplomacy : treaties, agreements, and conventions, 1775-1979 (2001) Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry (2002) (27)Higher Education and Self-Determination. (1991) (25)Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux (2009) (25)Indian Education in America: 8 Essays. (1994) (24)The Indian Reorganization Act: Congresses and Bills (2002) (21)One Hundred Million Acres (1973) OUR NEW RESEARCH SOCIETY: SOME WARNINGS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS (1980) Anti‐Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth (2003) Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America (1971) (19)Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1994) Native Americans: The American Indian Today (1981) Spiritual Management (1992) Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation Of 1969 1971 (1992) Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux (1999) Is Religion Possible? An Evaluation of Present Efforts to Revive Traditional Tribal Religions (1992) Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day (1977) (10)Of Utmost Good Faith (1972) (10)Crazy Horse : the strange man of the Oglalas : a biography (1942) (9)Indian Studies: The Orphan of Academia (1986) The Lummi Indian Community: The Fishermen of the Pacific Northwest (1978) Comfortable Fictions and the Struggle for Turf@@@The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies (1992) For this land (1998) The red man in the new world drama: A politico-legal study with a pageantry of American Indian history (1971) The Legal Universe: Observations on the Foundations of American Law (2011) Racial and Ethnic Studies, Political Science and Mid-Wifery (1999) Legislation and Litigation Concerning American Indians (1978) Education and Imperialism (1981) Reforming the future, where is the academy going? (2002) The New Exodus. (1971) Native American Sacred Sites and the Department of Defense (1998) (5)A Better Day for Indians. (1977) (4)VI COMPLETING THE THEOLOGICAL CIRCLE: CIVIL RELIGION IN AMERICA (1976) Perceptions and Maturity: Reflections on Feyerabend’s Point of View (1991) Tribal Colleges and Traditional Knowledge. (1993) (3)Reflections on the Black Hills Claim. (1988) Commentary: A Response to Doug Jones (2004) Government by default (1988) The Rise and Fall of the First Indian Movement (1971) Across the spectrum: Recent literature on American Indians (1997) A Native American Perspective on Liberation (1977) Legislative Analysis of the Federal Role in Indian Education. (1975) (2)Schlesier, Other Anthropologists, and Wounded Knee (1980) A Sender of Words: Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt (1985) Religion and Revolution Among American Indians: Religious politics and modernity in conflict (1974) Response to David Brumble (1998) The North Americans. (1975) (1)Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth:Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth. (2003) Integrity Before Education. (1974) Property and Self-Government as Educational Initiatives. (1990) (1)Religion and the Modern American Indian (1974) Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective by Curtis Cook, Juan D. Lindau (review) (2014) (1)Indian Treaties a Hundred Years Later. (1973) (0)The Place of American Indians in Contemporary Education. (1976) (0)Researching American Indian Treaties: Northwest and Southwest. (1975) (0)Mashpee: The Story of Cape Cod's Indian Town . By Hutchins Francis G.. (West Franklin, N.H.: Amarta Press, 1979. Pp. 202. $12.50.) (1980) A COMMENT ON THE AINU TRUST ASSETS LITIGATION IN JAPAN (2003) (0)Indian Education Confronts the Seventies. Five Volumes, Volume No. IV: Technical Problems in Indian Education. (1974) (0)The Aggressions of Civilization: Federal Indian Policy Since the 1880s@@@Killing the Hidden Waters: The Slow Destruction of Water Resources in the American Southwest (1988) Book Review: Seeing with a Native Eye: Essays on Native American Religion (1977) Radicals in Their Own Time: Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005): Betrayals and Bridges (2010) [A bill to provide for the social & economic development of the human & natural resources of the American Indian people, and for other purposes (1967) (0)The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Susan Scheckel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-691-05963-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-691-05964-0.) (2000) The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of North America ed. by Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb Washburn (review) (2014) (0)How Does a Native American Deal with Society (1973) (0)Rank three heroes from this list that you would like to present on, in order of preference: (2007) (0)The Indian World Today. (1973) (0)The Next Three Years: A Time for Change. (1974) (0)Indian Education Confronts the Seventies. Five Volumes; Volume II: Theoretical Considerations in Indian Education. (1974) (0)Forum: How I Have Changed My Mind (2004) Sundancing and Stargazing A Review Essay of: People of the Sacred Mountain by Father Peter John Powell (1982) (0)Indian Education Confronts the Seventies. Five Volumes; Volume I: History and Background of Indian Education. (1974) (0)Native American History (2003) The Western Shoshones. (1976) (0)Chapter 5 conquest masquerading as law (2006) Federal Policy and the Perennial Question (1991) Indian Public Policy Today (1994) 1989_American Indians and Humboldt State (1989) (0)Indian Education Confronts the Seventies. Five Volumes, Volume III: Special Program Considerations. (1974) (0)Commentary: A Response to Doug Jones (Book) (2004) (0)The Great Sioux nation : sitting in judgment on America : based on and containing testimony heard at the "Sioux treaty hearing" held December, 1974, in Federal District Court, Lincoln, Nebraska (1977) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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