Vine Deloria, Jr..
Standing Rock Sioux author, lawyer, seminarian, educator, political scientist, and Native American civil rights activist (1933-2005)
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Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights. He is widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement. From 1964 to 1967, he served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, increasing its membership of tribes from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the National Museum of the American Indian, which now has buildings in both New York City and in Washington, DC, on the Mall.
Everything about Vine Deloria, Jr. →- Occupation
- military officer, historian, writer, university teacher
- Position held
- executive director
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 26, 1933
- Died
- November 13, 2005