DOI
10.1353/wic.2006.0027
Abstract
Vine Deloria Jr., a Standing Rock Sioux citizen, widely considered the leading indigenous intellectual of the past century, walked on in November 2005. Deloria spent most of his adult life in an unrelenting, prodigious, and largely successful effort to provide those most grounded of Native individuals and their governments with the intellectual, theoretical, philosophical, and substantive arguments necessary to support their inherent personal and national sovereignty. Importantly, however, his voluminous work also sought to improve the nation-to-nation and intergovernmental relationships of and between First Nations, and between First Nations and non-Native governments at all levels. In fact, he was hailed in 1974 by Time magazine as a "Theological Superstar of the Future," and he received numerous awards from both Indian and non-Indian organizations throughout his life, including, most recently in January 2005, the American Indian Visionary Award from the leading Indian newspaper Indian Country Today.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2006 University of Minnesota Press. This article first appeared in Wicazo Sa Review 21:2 (October 2006), 151-155.
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Recommended Citation
Wilkins, David E. “Vine Deloria Jr. and Indigenous Americans.” Wicazo Sa Review 21, no. 2 (October 2006): 151-155.