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 expo...
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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 d...
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Critical Essay by Nancy Oestreich Lurie
[The differences in goals and methods of black militancy and red nationalism is a subject fraught with confusion and misunderstanding for the general public, b...
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Critical Essay by Robert C. Nelson
Christ Jesus' guidelines have been judged impractical because difficult to obey. The falterings of his followers have been taken as proof enough that the Ser...
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Critical Essay by Francis A. Lalley
His native viewpoint is the unique strength of Deloria's writing. He can explain how the world appears to those who were here on this continent countless ce...
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Critical Essay by Leo E. Oliva
[In Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties] Deloria argues effectively that the best solution to the "Indian problem," for Indians and the federal government...
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Critical Essay by Dee Brown
Among his people Vine Deloria Jr. has achieved a status somewhat similar to that of Sitting Bull's leadership of the Sioux tribes a century ago. Deloria is not a wa...
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Critical Essay by Choice
More than any other author, Indian or white, dealing with the topic of current Indian affairs, Vine Deloria has challenged and stimulated the general public and the academic ...
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Critical Essay by Jean K. Boek
[We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf] is another product of an era in which advocates are being heard for black power, women's lib, senior power, unionizat...
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Critical Essay by Choice
[The Indian Affair is a] short, critical essay by a noted Indian author on the despoiling and exploiting of the American Indian by individuals, federal agencies, and corporat...
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Critical Essay by Francis Paul Prucha
In his Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence …, Deloria draws together the arguments for autonomous status for the In...
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Critical Essay by James A. Phillips
If ["Custer Died for your Sins: an Indian Manifesto"] is indicative of Deloria's methods, he's more interested in results than in being...
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Critical Essay by Frances Svensson
[In Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties Deloria argues that] Indian tribes are, or should be under treaty law, semi-autonomous and self-determining communities ...
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Critical Essay by Marily Richards
[Deloria fills a gap with Indians of the Pacific Northwest] by describing the impact of rapid white settlement on the Puget Sound and Washington Coast tribes, which ...
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Critical Essay by Linda Morgan Rubens
In what is essentially a legal and political history [Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day], Deloria introduces ...
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Critical Essay by Tyler Thompson
If you are interested in savoring the emotional tone (as well as listening to some of the crucial ideas) of the emerging Indian protest movement, you will find [Custe...
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Critical Essay by Cecil Eby
Deloria brings into focus the moods and habitat of the contemporary Indian as seen by a Standing Rock Sioux, not by a research anthropologist or a jobber in the basketry t...
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Critical Essay by John S. Phillipson
[Mr. Deloria] is an Indian with an ironic sense of humor and an urgent message for the world today: to survive, it needs the flexibility of the tribe and the trib...
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Critical Essay by The New Yorker
[We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf is an] argumentative rather than informative book…. [The author] adopts a controversial style reminiscent of his for...
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Critical Essay by W. Roger Buffalohead
A number of American Indians have wanted to write a book like [Custer Died For Your Sins], or have threatened to. But while others dreamed, procrastinated, or f...
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Critical Essay by N. Scott Momaday
The title of Vine Deloria's new book, We Talk, You Listen, is significant in that it appears to express in itself a new and prevalent attitude among Indians,...
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Critical Essay by Alfonso Ortiz
[Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto] is the most ambitious and most successful overview of contemporary American Indian affairs and aspirations I have ever...
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In the following review, Abbey asserts that in Custer Died For Your Sins, Deloria "writes with much humor and even sympathy for what he believes to be the white Americans' pathetic inabi...
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In the following review, Whisker asserts that the essays in A Sender of Words are in honor of John G. Neihardt and his importance to Amerindian studies, rather than a critique of his work.
The titl...
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In the following review, the critic praises Deloria's humor and hopefulness in his presentation of the American government's broken promises to the Indians in Custer Died for Your Sins.
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In the following review, Eby discusses the commercial relationship between white America and its use of land versus the Indians' veneration of nature as presented by Deloria in We Talk, You Lis...
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In the following review, Kerr praises American Indians, American Justice as a highly readable examination of the United States federal government's policies concerning American Indians and thei...
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In the following essay, Washburn asserts that in The Nations Within, "When all is said and done, Deloria and Lytle, while not providing a practical solution to the Indian future, have laid the ...
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In the following excerpt, the critic states that the essays contained in Deloria's American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century "contain valuable information of interest to scholars a...
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In the following review, Colbert asserts that the essays in Deloria's American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century are educational and informative.
Native American studies programs at col...
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In the following review, Cornell traces the policy issues addressed in Deloria's American Indian in the Twentieth Century.
Vine Deloria introduces this valuable new collection[, American Ind...
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