Vine Deloria, Jr. (Yankton Dakota & Standing Rock Sioux)
1933-2005
Author, Theologian, Historian & Activist
Photo: Andrea Modica

Mr. Deloria was the preeminent, Native American writer of his time. He wrote more than 20 books, including:

1. Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, 1969
2. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 1994
3. American Indians, American Justice, 1983
4. American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century, 1985
5. The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty, 1984