... fell largely silent, although the iitc and other branches of the movement remained active throughout the 1970s and into the present.31 Standing Rock Sioux activist and legal scholar Vine Deloria Jr. (1933 – 2005) published several influential treatises at the height of aim that give shape to...

.... —Vine Deloria Jr., God Is Red Consider that every inch of stolen ground recovered by . . . Native Ameri- cans comes directly from the imperial integrity of the U.S. itself. —Ward Churchill, Marxism and Native Americans Kinship...

.... The nonfiction work of Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee), the nonfiction and fictional works of Ella Cara Deloria (Sioux) and D’Arcy McNickle (Cree/Salish), the philosophical and autobiographical work of John Joseph Mathews (Osage), and the ac- tivist writing produced by delegates to the 1961 American...

... to be in U.S. military service Publication of the American Indian (quarterly), American Association on Indian A√airs 1944 25,000 American Indians reported serving in U.S. fighting forces First meeting of National Congress of American Indians (ncai) Publication of Ella Cara Deloria...

... Skin, White Masks, 110. 32 See Deloria, God Is Red, 217; and Deloria, Metaphysics of Modern Existence, ix–xiii, 14–18, 86–101, and 118–20. 33 Deloria, God Is Red, 75–89. 34 Judy, (Dis)Forming the American Canon, 80–81. 35 Ibid., 301, 81, 89. 36 Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social...

... complete list of ratified treaties, see Francis Paul Prucha, American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly. Vine Deloria Jr. points out in his review of Prucha that, although it is an excellent source of information, this account is not sympathetic to Indian points...

... individual attention as to the efficacy in either the facts of their existence or their present supranatural ability to affect events. —Vine Deloria Jr., God Is Red Consider that every inch of stolen ground recovered by...

... new directions. Thank you, also, to Sara Kaplan for her research assistance at the start of this project. I am appreciative also for Judith Byfield, Phil Deloria, Robin Kelley, and Amy Stillman who have no idea how im- portant their thoughts and actions have been to the formation and...

... D. G. Kelley, Philip Deloria, J. F. (Frank) de la Teja, and Martha Menchaca for helping us round up some contributors; two of our former students from Macalester College, Adam Waterman and Brett Baldwin, for early research assistance; Katrina Chapelas and Diana Witt for their work on the...

... requirement of colonial power. Yet this shift from a ­people to a prob­lem still acknowledges the deeply po­litic­ al, historically com- plex nature of ethnographic practice in and with native communities in North Amer a. Vine­i­c Deloria Jr.’s well- k­ nown 1969 critique of “anthropologists and other...

... produced by Native women activists (Castle 2000; Cornell 1988; Deloria 1985; Johnson 1996; Olson and Wilson 1984; Steiner 1968; Warrior and Smith 1996; Weyler 1992). Many historians of pan- Indian organizing trace it to the relocation period of the 1950s when Native peoples were encouraged to relocate...

... acknowledgment of that fact from the outside world. Chief Joe Pierite finally made a contact that would lead somewhere in 1967, when he communicated with Vine Deloria Jr., then executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. Because of the ncai’s central position in Indian politics at the...

... professional league that became the National Football League most likely would not have succeeded without the enormous popularity of the legendary Jim Thorpe. As Philip Deloria argues, the success of these athletes points to one of the ways American Indians at the beginning of the twentieth century...

... with more than the obvious misreading of poststructuralist thought and its relationship to truth. Native studies since its inception has steadfastly engaged the historical and political context that defines truth. Vine Deloria Jr.’s germinal texts, particularlyGod Is Red, argue that Native...

... discovery of America, Vine Deloria Jr. attempted to alter the context of the debate by insisting that “we need to know the truth about North American prehistory.” By using the term “prehistory,” Deloria followed common practice among archaeologists and anthropologists when referring to...

... cultural coherence of “Savage” sovereignty. Skins operates through a myriad of strategies which demonstrate its fidelity to the same project of sovereign restoration that is brought to life in the work of ontologists like Vine Deloria, Leslie Silko, Taiaiake Alfred, Ward Churchill, and Haunani- Kay...

... East- man as recognizably professional. One flier advertising his lecture reads: ‘‘If it were not for his bronzed features, one would take Dr. Eastman for the typical, hospitable New Englander’’ (quoted in Maddox, Citizen Indian, 33). 10 See Philip J. Deloria, ‘‘Vine V. Deloria Sr./Dakota...

... period, Vine Deloria Jr. (Lakota), is arguably the father of Native American Studies. His early works, Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1970) and God Is Red (1973), were refreshingly honest and almost brutally frank. Deloria effectively used his wit and humor to illustrate how...

... manuscript several times. Philip Deloria, Julie Ellison, Elizabeth Cole, Peggy McCracken, Scott Kurashige, Maria Cotera, Damon Salesa, and Naomi Andre also reviewed and pro- vide helpful feedback on my project. James Treat at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, provided additional support for...