Deloria
Americannoun
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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
“I would not assume waning immunity based on this study alone,” said Maria Deloria Knoll, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021
Adams was called the “most important Indian” by influential Native American rights advocate and author Vine Deloria Jr., because he was involved with nearly every major event in American Indian history from the 1960s forward.
From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 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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