“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” — 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
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share
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
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.… — 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
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
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians… — 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
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
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
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
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
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share
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,… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share
