Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?
Vine Deloria Jr.Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.
Vine Deloria Jr.Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
Vine Deloria Jr.Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria Jr.To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
Vine Deloria Jr.If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues about the nature and origin of human society. Consequently it was an injury to science and human knowledge to allow the military to simply exterminate them.
Vine Deloria Jr.