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Deloria

American  
[duh-lawr-ee-uh] / dəˈlɔr i ə /

noun

  1. Vine, (Jr.) 1933–2005, U.S. writer.


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By 1969, anthropologists were so ubiquitous on reservations that noted scholar and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Vine Deloria, Jr., quipped, “Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2022

In “Playing Indian,” the book by Deloria, he argues that white people in this country have been co-opting Native identities since the Boston Tea Party.

From New York Times • May 25, 2021

The historian Vine Deloria called Adams “the most important Indian” in the U.S. because of his role in important actions and movements beginning in the 1960s for Indian sovereignty and civil rights.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2020

She remembered plaintiffs such as Vine Deloria Jr., who joined her in that 1992 suit.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2020

Historians Vine Deloria Jr. and Raymond J. DeMallie note that traditionally when Indigenous nations entered into treaties, they considered peace to be more than an end to the fighting.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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