This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

- 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.

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.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

- 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…

- Vine Deloria Jr.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

- Vine Deloria Jr.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

- Vine Deloria Jr.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

- 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…

- Vine Deloria Jr.