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Life of the Indigenous Mind - Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement (Paperback)
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Life of the Indigenous Mind - Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement (Paperback)
Series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous
Mind David Martinez examines the early activism, life, and writings
of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most influential Indigenous
activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the
intellectual architects of the Red Power movement. An experienced
activist, administrator, and political analyst, Deloria was
motivated to activism and writing by his work as executive director
of the National Congress of American Indians, and he came to view
discourse on tribal self-determination as the most important
objective for making a viable future for tribes. In this work of
both intellectual and activist history, Martinez assesses the early
life and legacy of Deloria's "Red Power Tetralogy," his most
powerful and polemical works: Custer Died for Your Sins (1969), We
Talk, You Listen (1970), God Is Red (1973), and Behind the Trail of
Broken Treaties (1974). Deloria's gift for combining sharp
political analysis with a cutting sense of humor rattled his
adversaries as much as it delighted his growing readership. Life of
the Indigenous Mind reveals how Deloria's writings addressed
Indians and non-Indians alike. It was in the spirit of protest that
Deloria famously and infamously confronted the tenets of
Christianity, the policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the
theories of anthropology. The concept of tribal self-determination
that he initiated both overturned the presumptions of the dominant
society, including various "Indian experts," and asserted that
tribes were entitled to the rights of independent sovereign nations
in their relationship with the United States, be it legally,
politically, culturally, historically, or religiously.
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