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
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.… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
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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