Vine Deloria Quotes

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'