Vine Deloria, Jr. Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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. ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more