Quotes by Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Deloria Jr.

Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land – American Indians – and the political owner of the land – American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.

Effort

Land

Spiritual

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

Ignorant

Improvement

Savages

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

Half

Said

Way

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

Choices

Lying

World

Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.

Community

People

Responsibility

If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues about the nature and origin of human society. Consequently it was an injury to science and human knowledge to allow the military to simply exterminate them.

Clue

Injury

Military

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Ifs

Sovereign

Want

Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.

America

Believe

Two

Never has America lost a war … But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

Country

Successful

War

Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.

Christian

Knowing

Remembrance

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America

American Society

Animal

Believe

Choices

Christian

Civilization

Clue

Color

Community

Country

Doe

Effort

Fierce

Figures

Fit

Goal

Half

Ifs

Ignorant

Improvement

Injury

Jupiter

Knowing

Knowledge And Power

Land

Lying

Men

Military

Mind

Modern

Objectivity

Past

People

Real

Remembrance

Responsibility

Royalty

Said

Savages

Sovereign

Spiritual

Successful

Two

Unconscious

Want

War

Way

White

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Quotes by Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Deloria Jr.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.

Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.

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