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
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
"If we’re only thieves who stole our land from someone else,” Deloria said, "then they can say, ‘Well, we’re just the same.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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