Person Record

Metadata

Name

Deloria, Jr., Vine

Born

03/26/1933

Birthplace

Martin, SD

Deceased

11/13/2005

Deceased where

Wheat Ridge, CO

Places of residence

Colorado (Golden, from 1972-1978 and 1993-2005)
South Dakota
Arizona
Iowa
Illinois

Titles & honors

American Indian Visionary Award (2005)
Board of Trustees for the Museum of the American Indian
United States Marines

Father

Vine Deloria, Sr.

Nationality

Sioux Nation

Education

Colorado School of Mines
Iowa State University (Bachelor of Science) 1958
Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, IL (Master's in Theology) 1963
University of Colorado Law School, (Juris Doctor) 1970
Kent School, private college-preparatory school in Connecticut, graduated 1951

Notes

Native American Standing Rock Sioux

Occupation

Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians
Professor, University of Colorado
Seminarian
Lawyer
Activist
Writer

Publications

- Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969)
- God is Red: A Native View of Religion (1973)
- The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men (posthumously published 2006)
- Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact (1997)
- C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature and the Primitive (posthumously published 2006)
- The Metaphysics of Modern Existence (posthumously published 2012)
- Evolution, Creationsim, and Other Modern Myths (2004)
- American Indians, American Justice (1983)
- The Indian Affair (1974)
+ many others