Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Deloria, Jr. (* 1933 in Martin, South Dakota; † 13. November 2005) war ein indianischer Autor und Aktivist. In seinem bekanntesten Werk, Custer Died for Your Sins (1969) kritisiert er die Behandlung der Indianer durch die US-Regierung und die Ethnologen.

Der Lakota-Indianer Deloria wuchs in der Standing-Rock-Reservation auf. Nach Abschluss seines Theologie-Studiums an der Iowa State University schloss er 1964-1967 ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaft an der University of Colorado an. Er hoffte, als Anwalt seinem Volk besser helfen zu können.

Neben seiner Ausbildung war Deloria Aktivist für die Rechte der Indianer. Er veröffentlichte eine Reihe hochbeachteter Bücher über die Rechte der Indianer. Er war Mitglied verschiedener indianischer Organisationen, war Vorstandsmitglied des National Museum of the American Indian sowie Direktor des National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). An verschiedenen Universitäten unterrichtete er Politikwissenschaft.

Bibliographie

 * Aggressions of civilization: federal Indian policy since the 1880s, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
 * American Indian policy in the twentieth century, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
 * American Indians, American justice, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
 * Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: an Indian declaration of independence, New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1974.
 * A Better Day for Indians, New York: Field Foundation, 1976.
 * A brief history of the Federal responsibility to the American Indian, Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979'',
 * Custer died for your sins: an Indian manifesto, New York: Macmillan, 1969.
 * For this land: writings on religion in America, New York: Routledge, 1999.
 * Frank Waters: man and mystic, Athens: Swallow Press: Ohio University Press, 1993.
 * God is red: a native view of religion, Golden, Colorado: North American Press, 1994.
 * The Indian affair, New York: Friendship Press, 1974.
 * Indians of the Pacific Northwest, New York: Doubleday, 1977.
 * The metaphysics of modern existence, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.
 * The nations within: the past and future of American Indian sovereignty, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
 * Of utmost good faith, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1971.
 * Red earth, white lies: Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact, New York: Scibner, 1995.
 * The red man in the new world drama: a politico-legal study with a pageantry of American Indian history, New York: Macmillan, 1971.
 * Reminiscences of Vine V. Deloria, Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota 1970, New York Times oral history program: American Indian oral history research project. Part II; no. 82.
 * The right to know: a paper, Washington, D.C.: Office of Library and Information Services, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1978.
 * A sender of words: essays in memory of John G. Neihardt, Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1984.
 * Singing for a spirit: a portrait of the Dakota Sioux, Santa Fe, N.M.: Clear Light Publishers, 1999.
 * Spirit and reason: the Vine Deloria, Jr., reader, Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Pub, 1999.
 * Tribes, treaties, and constitutional tribulations (with Wilkins, David E.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
 * We talk, you listen; new tribes, new turf, New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Weblinks

 * Native American Authors Project: Vine Deloria Jr.