It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. - Vine Deloria Jr.
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
- Vine Deloria Jr.
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. - Vine Deloria Jr.
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it availab… - Vine Deloria Jr.
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it availab…
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. - Vine Deloria Jr.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians… - 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…
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. - Vine Deloria Jr.
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
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 th… - Vine Deloria Jr.
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 th…
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. - Vine Deloria Jr.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign. - Vine Deloria Jr.
If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.
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