Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a people. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right.… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
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