To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. — Vine Deloria Jr American society Copy Share Image
“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” — Vine Deloria Jr Native american wisdom 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Feathers Copy Share Image
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. — Vine Deloria Jr American indian 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 America Copy Share Image
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. — Vine Deloria Jr Consuming Copy Share Image
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Branches 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Cavalry Copy Share Image
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white… — Vine Deloria Jr Academic 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Bases Copy Share Image
Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious… — Vine Deloria Jr Conscious Copy Share Image
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all… — Vine Deloria Jr Future Copy Share Image
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make… — Vine Deloria Jr Available 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Ignorant 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Abstraction Copy Share Image
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -… — Vine Deloria Jr Accusation Copy Share Image
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but… — Vine Deloria Jr Allies Copy Share Image
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have… — Vine Deloria Jr Collision 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Clue 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… — Vine Deloria Jr Ancestor Copy Share Image
Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make? — Vine Deloria Jr Certain Copy Share Image
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria Jr Character Copy Share Image
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the… — Vine Deloria Jr Avid 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… — Vine Deloria Jr America Copy Share Image
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