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Vine Deloria, Jr. [1933-2005]
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Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was a Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist. He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, which helped generate national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement.

Knowledge, Power

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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. Knowledge, Power
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When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
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