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Indian Quotes by Vine Deloria, Jr.
- 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…
- To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
- 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…
- When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
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