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Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was born in 1933 in Martin, South Dakota. He obtained a Master of Theology degree from the Lutheran School of Theology in Rock Island, Illinois in 1963 and a J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1970. He is one of the most outspoken figures in Indian affairs. His works promote Native American cultural nationalism and a greater understanding of Native American history and philosophy.

Awards and Honors

Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Prose - Personal and Critical Essays) award, 1999 (for Spirit and Reason)

(Photo courtesy of Facts on File, American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience )

Online resources by or about Vine Deloria Jr.:

Vine Deloria Jr.
Author: Glenn Welker
Type: authorbio
Description: Quotation from Vine Deloria Jr. and b&w picture, from Glenn Welker's Indigenous Peoples' Literature website.
URL: http://www.indigenouspeople.net/vine.htm

Books by Vine Deloria Jr.:

Deloria Jr., Vine. Aggressions of civilization : federal Indian policy since the 1880s
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1984.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 258 p. ; 22 cm. Edited by Sandra L. Cadwalader and Vine Deloria, Jr. Includes bibliographies and index.
Government relations--1869-1934. Government relations--1934- Legal status, laws, etc.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0877223491
Deloria Jr., Vine. American Indian policy in the twentieth century
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 265 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Government relations. Legal status, laws, etc.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0806118970
Deloria Jr., Vine. American Indians, American justice
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1983.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 262 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography and indexes. Co-authored by Clifford M. Lytle.
Courts Legal status, laws, etc.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 029273834x (pbk.) 0292738331
Deloria Jr., Vine. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties : an Indian declaration of independence
New York : Dell Publishing Co., 1974.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 263 p. ; 20 cm. Includes index.
Government relations. Legal status, laws, etc.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0440014041
Deloria Jr., Vine. A Better Day for Indians
New York : Field Foundation, 1976.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 34 p. ; 22 cm. Notes : Pamphlets. Contributors : Field Foundation (New York, N.Y.)
Government and Politics. Law and Legislation. Civil Rights. Critiques, Analyses, etc.
Audience: Adult
Deloria Jr., Vine. A brief history of the Federal responsibility to the American Indian
Washington : Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 32 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series : DHEW publication ; no. (OE)79-02404 Contributors : United States. Office of Education. Federal aid to education.
Audience: Adult
Deloria Jr., Vine. Custer died for your sins : an Indian manifesto
New York : Macmillan, 1969.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 279 p. ; 22 cm.
Government relations. Indians, Treatment of--United States.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0806121297
Deloria Jr., Vine. For this land : writings on religion in America
New York : Routledge, 1999.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: vii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Edited and with an introduction by James Treat.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0415921147
Deloria Jr., Vine. Frank Waters : man and mystic
Athens : Swallow Press : Ohio University Press, 1993.
Genre: Biography
Description: 249 p. ; 22 cm. Edited by Vine Deloria Jr.
Waters, Frank, 1902--Criticism and interpretation.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0804009783 (h.c.) 0804009791 (pbk.)
Moore, Marijo; Deloria Jr., Vine. Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing
New York : Nation Books, 2003.
Genre: Essays
Language: English
Description: 352 pages
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 1560255110
Deloria Jr., Vine. God is red : a native view of religion
Golden, Colorado : North American Press, 1994.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 376 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Originally published in 1973 by Grosset &Dunlap of New York. Indians--Religion and mythology.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 1555911765
Deloria Jr., Vine. The Indian affair
New York : Friendship Press, 1974.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 95 p. ; 18 cm.
Government relations. Social conditions.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 037700023
Deloria Jr., Vine. Indians of the Pacific Northwest
New York : Doubleday, 1977.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 207 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index. Summary : A history of the tribes of the Pacific Northwest from the coming of the white man to the present day. Northwest, Pacific--Juvenile literature. Northwest, Pacific--Government relations--Juvenile literature
Audience: Youth
ISBN: 0385097905
Deloria Jr., Vine. The metaphysics of modern existence
San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1979.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 233 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography.
Religion and mythology. Civilization, Modern--Moral and religious aspects. Religion and culture.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0064502503
Deloria Jr., Vine. The nations within : the past and future of American Indian sovereignty
New York : Pantheon Books, 1984.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 293 p. ; 24 cm. Contributing author : Clifford M. Lytle. Includes bibliography and index.
Tribal government. Government relations--1934-. Civil rights.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0394725662 (pbk.)
Deloria Jr., Vine. Of utmost good faith
San Francisco : Straight Arrow Books, 1971.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Government relations. History--Sources
Audience: Adult
Deloria Jr., Vine. Red earth, white lies : Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact
New York : Scibner, 1995.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 286 p. ; 23 cm. Discusses and debunks anthropological theories from a Native viewpoint.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0684807009
Deloria Jr., Vine. The red man in the new world drama ; a politico-legal study with a pageantry of American Indian history
New York : Macmillan, 1971.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 418 p. ; 24 cm.
Edited, revised, and with an introduction by Vine Deloria Jr. Authored by Jennings C. Wise. Includes bibliographical references. History. Government relations. Indians, Treatment of--United States
Audience: Adult
Deloria Jr., Vine. Reminiscences of Vine V. Deloria, Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
1970.
Genre: Oral History
Description: 13 pts. Interviewer, Herbert Hoover.
New York Times oral history program American Indian oral history research project. Part II ; no. 82.
Deloria Jr., Vine. The right to know : a paper
Washington, D.C. : Office of Library and Information Services, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1978.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 17 pages ; 28 cm.
Prepared for the White House Pre-Conference on Indian Library and Information Services on or near Reservations, Denver Airport Hilton Inn, Colorado, October 19-22, 1978. Series : White House Pre-Conference on Indian Library and Information Services on or near Reservations papers ; no. 4. Libraries and Indians--United States--Congresses.
Audience: Adult
Deloria Jr., Vine. A sender of words : essays in memory of John G. Neihardt
Salt Lake City : Howe Brothers, 1984.
Genre: Essays
Description: 177 p. : port. ; 24 cm. "A chronology of books by John G. Neihardt." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0935704221
Deloria Jr., Vine. Singing for a spirit : a portrait of the Dakota Sioux
Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers, 1999.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 1574160257
Deloria Jr., Vine. Spirit and reason : the Vine Deloria, Jr., reader
Golden, Colorado : Fulcrum Pub, 1999.
Genre: Essays
Description: ix, 384 p. ; 23 cm.
Edited by Barbara Deloria, Kristen Foehner, and Sam Scinta.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 1555914306
Deloria Jr., Vine; Wilkins, David E.. Tribes, treaties, and constitutional tribulations
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: xi, 209 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0292716079
Deloria Jr., Vine. We talk, you listen; new tribes, new turf
New York : Macmillan, 1970.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 227 p. 22 cm.
Minorities--United States United States--Social conditions--1960-1980
Audience: Adult