Branches Quote by Vine Deloria Jr

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

— Vine Deloria Jr

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

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

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

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

— Vine Deloria Jr

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

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

— Vine Deloria Jr

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

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

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

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

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