Custer Died for Your Sins : : an Indian Manifesto
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1969. With new pref.
Includes index.
Indians today, the real and the unreal -- Laws and treaties -- Disastrous policy of termination -- Anthropologists and other friends -- Missionaries and the religious vacuum -- Government agencies -- Indian humor -- Red and the black -- Problem of Indian leadership -- Indians and modern society -- Redefinition of Indian affairs.
The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans.
In Custer Died for your Sins, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest. -- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Year Published: 1988
Description: xiii, 278 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780806121291
0806121297 :
SUBJECTS
Native Americans -- Government relations -- 1934-
Native Americans, Treatment of -- United States.
Indigenous Peoples of North America.