1604: Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/01/01
1969: “But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists.”
1969: “The American public feels most comfortable with the mythical Indians of stereotype-land who were always THERE.”
1969: “Most of us don’t fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating, which is seldom.”
1969: “When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours.’ ”
1969: “Seen a more devious but hardly less successful war waged against Indian communities.”
1973: “American Indians hold their lands — places — as having the highest possible meaning, and all their statements are made with this reference point in mind.”
1973: “This dilemma over the nature of history occurs and will occur whenever a religion is divorced from space and made an exclusive agent of time.”
1973: “The task of the tribal religion is to determine the proper relationship that the people of the tribe must have with other living things.”
2001: “In this comparison Indian knowledge provides a predictive context in which certain prophetic statements can be made.”
2001: “It is permissible within the Indian context to admit that something mysterious remains after all is said and done.”
2001: “Real knowledge creates politeness in the personality, and one can see this trait in many wise non-Indians.”
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