Deloria

[ duh-lawr-ee-uh ]

noun

1. Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn], 1933–2005, U.S. writer.

Example Sentences

Called “the most important Indian” in the U.S. by the historian Vine Deloria, Adams helped shape many of the key historic events in Indian Country including the Fish Wars in the Pacific Northwest.

From Seattle Times

By 1969, anthropologists were so ubiquitous on reservations that noted scholar and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Vine Deloria, Jr., quipped, “Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists.”

From Scientific American

For more than 10,000 years, the Lummi and other Coast Salish people lived seasonally, experiencing the region “not as an area with clearly defined boundaries, but as a series of sites to be occupied at certain times of the year,” Vine Deloria Jr. wrote in his history of the tribe.

From New York Times

“There’s an authenticity dimension to it. You know you’re in the West, you know you’re somewhere else because you’re seeing Indians,” said Philip J. Deloria, a professor of history at Harvard University and author of the nonfiction book, “Playing Indian.”

From New York Times

“The moments when Americans start getting out on the road and start becoming travelers and tourists is completely wrapped up in this. It’s wrapped up in going into new places and pretending you are native to those places,” said Dr. Deloria, who is descended from the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

From New York Times