SOURCE: A review of Custer Died For Your Sins, in New York Times Book Review, November 9, 1969, p. 46.

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 inability to feel and understand the true nature of the situation we are living in."

Even our Indians are turning against us now. Red Power. All the chickens coming home to roost. In Custer Died For Your Sins the author reminds us—and Vine Deloria, former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, is himself an Indian—that America was discovered not by Columbus, not by Leif Ericson, but by the Indians—over 20,000 years ago. This simple fact has somehow eluded the rest of us, perhaps because the original discoverers of this continent were regarded by the English...