hitherto discovered ... and to be discovered ... together with all their dominions, cities, camps, places, and villages, and all rights, jurisdictions, and appurtenances of the same" -- to the controversies over varying interpretations of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, the 1978 demise and renewal of the Indian Claims Commission, and the need for congressional action on Indian rights. Deloria has a unique ability to cut through stereotypes, myths, and outright lies to arrive at the truth about Indian affairs.
Deloria was born to Vine and Barbara Eastbuin Deloria on 26 March 1933 in Martin, South Dakota, on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. An enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, he comes from a distinguished Sioux family on his father's side: his great-grandfather Saswe was a medicine man of the Yanktons; his grandfather was a Yankton chief who converted to Christianity in the 1870s and spent the rest of his life as a missionary on the Standing Rock Reservation.
This is a free page. This page contains 162 words. This
biography contains 3,528 words (approx. 12 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our Vine (Victor) Deloria, Jr. Access Pass.
