Custer died for your sins : an Indian manifesto
Title:
Custer died for your sins : an Indian manifesto
Author:
Summary:
Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This "manifesto" provides valuable insights on American Indian history, Native American culture, and context for minority protest movements mobilizing across the country throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally published in 1969, this book remains a timeless classic and is one of the most significant nonfiction works written by a Native American.
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1969. With new pref.
Contents:
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.
Physical Description:
xiii, 278 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press,
Publication Date:
1988
1969
ISBN:
9780806121291
Publication Information:
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Call Number:
973.049 DELORIA