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DIED. VINE DELORIA, 72, sardonic scholar widely regarded as the century's most influential Native American thinker, writer and activist; of complications from an aortic aneurysm; in Denver. In more than 20 books, most famously the 1969 manifesto Custer Died for Your Sins, the Standing Rock Sioux debunked stereotypes and articulated the legitimacy of Native American intellectual and spiritual beliefs, once noting, "We have brought the white man a long...
University of Michigan historian Philip J. Deloria, who delivered the keynote address at the conference, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that he found the president’s remarks...
...particularly offended, but I can imagine that some people may have been,” Deloria wrote...
...plains, Buffalo Commons is called Poppercock and worse. At least four Governors have denounced it. Bodyguards were furnished for the Poppers this spring when they went onstage in Nebraska to further explain their idea. But the Poppers did win support from other academics, some in the plains. Vine Deloria Jr. of the University of Colorado, an Indian activist (he's a Sioux) and author (Custer Died for Your Sins), feels that such a scheme might help break the cycle of welfare and subsidy checks that have held many Indians in serfdom for decades...
...Custer die on the gentle hill where his body was found, or by the river as Indian tales say? Did the last troopers, as Indian veterans claimed, commit suicide to avoid being tortured? "The myths around Custer and the battle have become much bigger than the facts," says Vine Deloria, a Sioux author. "This could help set the record straight...