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Delphine Red Shirt (born 4 June 1957) is an Oglala Lakota Sioux writer. She has served as the Chairperson of the United Nations NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People from 1995 to 1996, and as the United Nations Representative for the Four Directions Council: International Indigenous Organization from 1994 to 1997. She formerly was a syndicated columnist for Indian Country Today, and the Hartford Courant. Red Shirt is well-known for the racial controversy surrounding her article alleging that Connecticut Indian tribes are "not Indians", using racial ideology to determine this. Ironically, Red Shirt is married to a white man named Richard H. Shaw, Stanford Dean of Admissions, and has two half white, half Indian children who may not fit her racial definition of Indian.
Bibliography
- Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter, Nebraska UP 1997.
- Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood, Nebraska UP 1997. ISBN 0-8032-8976-6
