Deloria
Americannoun
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Colonists even dressed up as Native Americans for the Boston Tea Party—a practice that historian Philip Deloria refers to as “playing Indian.”
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
Called “the most important Indian” in the U.S. by the historian Vine Deloria, Adams helped shape many of the key historic events in Indian Country including the Fish Wars in the Pacific Northwest.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
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
Deloria was the author of many books, including Red Earth, White Lies, a critique of mainstream archaeology.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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