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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Author Biography

Name: Vine Deloria, Jr.
Birth Date: March 26, 1933
Place of Birth: Martin, South Dakota, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author/poet, scholar, historian, executive director, political scientist, activist

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Biography of Vine (Victor) Deloria, Jr.
3528 words, approx. 11.8 pages
Most non-Indian readers probably know Vine Deloria Jr. as the author of his popular first book, Custer Died for Your Sins (1969); they recall the humor, wit, and bite of this "Indian manifesto" that deals with subjects as large as the Indian Wars by reve...
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Biography of Vine Deloria, Jr.
2341 words, approx. 7.8 pages
Vine Deloria, Jr. (born 1933) is known as a revolutionary thinker who speaks out against the decadence of U.S. culture and insists that young Native Americans receive traditional teachings before exposing themselves to the philosophies of the dominant Eu...


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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion Information
82 words, approx. 1 pages
God is Red: A Native View of Religion, by Vine Deloria, Jr., is a nonfiction book that discusses traditional Native American religious views, particularly their relation to Western Christianity. It also details the hardships faced by Native Americans as...


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The American Indian Quarterly
God is Red: A Native View of Religion. (book reviews)
09/22/1994: 903 words, approx. 3 pages
Coyote Old Man has always been a teacher, a wily man of the world who combines perspicuity, vision, and intuition with a sense of the ironic. Even in moments of feigned foolishness and individualism, Coyote is the people's teacher and is committed to...
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Publishers Weekly
Gods of War, Gods of Peace: How the Meeting of Native and Colonial Religions Shaped Early America. (Nonfiction). (book review)
03/11/2002: 314 words, approx. 1 pages
RUSSELL BOURNE. Harcourt, $28 (432p) ISBN 0-15-100501 -X In 1802, Thomas Jefferson praised Handsome Lake, a Seneca prophet, for preaching moral reform among the Iroquois people; Handsome Lake, he said, was "favored by the Divine spirit," and would be instrumental in creating...
 


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Critical Review by Rosemary Radford Ruether
982 words, approx. 3 pages
Ruether is an American educator and theologian. In the following review, she highlights the contrasts between Christianity and Native American religions that Deloria presents in God Is Red.
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Critical Review by Tod D. Swanson
645 words, approx. 2 pages
In following review, Swanson lauds how Deloria has updated his God Is Red for the 1990s.
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Critical Essay by Peter Mayer
477 words, approx. 2 pages
[With "God Is Red" Deloria] has written yet another gripping account on the fate of the American Indian. Vine Deloria's interests range far and wide; the lore of his people is examined from an incredible number of different perspectives; various books of the Bible are introduced as history, and incredibly complex scientific (and other) data or explanations … are cited to give new twists to old beliefs. It is indeed a fascinating tale. The discussion takes place on two levels. The...
 


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