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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Written by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Narrated by Kaipo Schwab
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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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting as a time capsule. Lots of names dropped and scores settled. Not quite an entry level book, this clearly assumes at least passing familiarity with the current events of the mid 60s in both the civil rights movement and Indian affairs. Engagingly written and makes compelling points about both history and what Deloria sees as next steps for the movement.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great book. It had some hot take that I’m not sure I agree with but can’t say without more research, mostly regarding what the book had to say regarding the African American movements and actions etc. but this is still a very necessary read for Americans!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Although the book is nearly 50 years old much of it is still painfully relevant. I agree with the blurb on the back says it should be required reading for all Americans. Now I have to go and read up on what has changed since he wrote it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Written by the late Jr. Vine Deloria, former history professor at U of Colorado and executive director of the National Congress of American Indians.Deloria discusses his personal frustrations with American policies directed at Indians, and humorously, anthropologists and whites who want to claim Indian ancestry. Deloria is candid in his writing and calls for specific changes to current arrangements.Highly recommended for anyone and everyone because we clearly (and sadly) haven't been paying attention to this group before...or ever.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Deloria's perspective on U.S. history was both discomforting and eye-opening. Whenever someone (clearly caucasian) tells me about their Cherokee princess great-great grandmother, I think of Vine Deloria's book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I first found the book Custer Died For Your Sins, fittingly, on a field trip for an Intro to Post-Colonialism class. We went to the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian where the book was on display. And, you know, it's a fun title, so I got a copy.Unfortunately, Vine Deloria would probably not be impressed with my field trip or class or the institutionalization of "culture" in general. He spends an entire chapter making fun of the misguided and patronizing work of anthropology, often no-holds-barred scathing commentary:"One workshop discussed the thesis that Indians were in a terrible crisis. They were, in the words of friendly anthro guides, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS. People between two worlds, the students were told, DRANK. For the anthropologists, it was a valid explanation of drinking on the reservation. For the young Indians, it was an authoritative definition of their role as Indians.So they DRANK.I lost some good friends who DRANK too much."The book de-mythologizes the idealized Indian in the minds of many white Americans - e.g., Tonto or the Indians in Peter Pan, written by and for white impressions of the culture. But Deloria is also writing a specifically political manifesto concerning the status and rights of Indian nations at the end of the 1960s. So other chapters delve into the political struggles that American Indians have, both internally and externally. The black civil rights movement has a huge impact on the way that Deloria is thinking about Indians' civil rights. Yet he also resists the inclination to merely copy the success of black civil rights leaders - it wouldn't work, they're different minorities with different issues, and a simplification of different cultures with the status of "minority" is damaging to them all.The relevance of this book 40 years later is ambiguous - certainly there are different political issues now, but there are still problems of marginalization and the tension between living with an American government and asserting independent nationhood. However, the book remains an interesting piece of history, and a strong voice of dissent on behalf of a group that has struggled to have its own say.