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by Vine Deloria, Jr. (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers an alternative view of the continent's history as seen through the eyes and memories of Native Americans. Further, he warns future generations of scientists not to repeat the ethnocentric omissions and fallacies of the past by dismissing Native oral tradition as mere legends.
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"This is Vine Deloria at his very best--challenging, taunting, acerbic and powerful." --Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., author of Now That the Buffalo's Gone
"This is Vine Deloria's best book yet... Red Earth, White Lies shoots down a whole herd of sacred cows--from Charles Darwin's cow to Samuel Eliot Morison's bull." --Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony
"Vine Deloria, Jr., started the whole modern American Indian renaissance... Now, in Red Earth, White Lies, he is lambasting scholars and scientists for filling our heads with nonsense while they ignore the traditional knowledge of native tribes. Bound to be controversial, bound to start readers rethinking old concepts." --Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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In this latest work by the prominent historian, Deloria turns his audacious intellect and fiery indignation to an examination of modern science as it relates to Native American oral history and exposes the myth of scientific fact, defending Indian mythology as the more truthful account of the history of the earth. Deloria grew up in South Dakota, in a small border town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There he was in a position to absorb the culture and traditions of Western Europeans, as well as of the native Sioux people. Much of the formal education he received about science, including how the earth and its people had formed and developed over time, came from the white, Western world; he and his fellow students accepted it as gospel, even though this information often contradicted the ancient teachings of the Native American peoples. As an adult, though, Deloria saw how some of these scientific "facts", once readily accepted as the truth, now began to run against common sense as well as the teachings of his people. For example, the question of why certain peoples had lighter or darker skins posed an especially thorny problem - one that mainstream journals and books failed to answer in a way that was satisfactory to this budding skeptic. When he began to reexamine other previously irrefutable theories - of the earth's creation, of the evolution of people, of the acceptance of the notion that the Indians themselves had been responsible for slaughtering and wiping out certain large animals from their habitat over time - he also began to reconsider the value of myth and religion in an explanation of the world's history and, in the process, to document and record traditionalknowledge of Indian tribes as offered by the tribal elders.
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Vine Deloria Jr. is a leading Native American scholar whose research writings, and teaching have encompassed history, law, religious studies, and political science. He is the former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. Named by Time magazine as one of the eleven greatest religious thinkers of the twentieth century, he is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including God is Red, Custer Died for Your Sins, Power and Place, and Red Earth, White Lies. Mr. Deloria lives in Golden, Colorado.
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Publication date : 29 October 2018
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Josue Ayuso
5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging the (academic) status quoReviewed in Germany on 7 November 2025
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Deloria at his finest. Genuine questions about scientific dogmas are raised. Widely criticised, including in an academic journal (American Literary History, 1998, with Deloria's reply), he unapologetically challenges the status quo.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great boomReviewed in Spain on 13 June 2019
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Great book
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E. Hansen
5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Age PoliticsReviewed in the United States on 30 September 2009
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The scholarly and political content of Red Earth, White Lies is difficult to parse because 'so called' scientific theory has been detrimentally applied by politicians to the administration of Indian affairs through U.S. government bureaucracy. The attrocities perpetrated against many tribal groups, retold in disturbing detail by Dee Brown's book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
would be enough to choke the heart with bitterness, were you or I descended from any one of the peoples so maliciously misused. But Vine DeLoria, scholar and educator that he is, draws us towards historical and scientific evidence that is both ignored and overlooked by scientific and religious ivory towers. (academicians) Though citing scientific evidence, he doesn't argue scientific method, but as a lawyer, argues that the presentation and preservation of evidence is flawed with bias.
In the wisdom of the elders of his people he has the audacity to suggest that the geological record, the fossil record and the political track record have all been shamefully and deliberately, dishonestly reported.
If you purchase this book, I recommend first reading the chapter on Living Fossils (It's the final chapter of the book, enigmatically titled: "At The Beginning") and then going back and studying the political fiasco and scientific (un) documentation of the B.S. (Bering Strait) migration theory. It'll prime your instincts to appreciate DeLoria's tone of sarcasm as he discusses the political science of inter-tribal relations with the government agencies. You should also sense that this sarcasm is supplanting an otherwise very justifiable anger. Even when academicians make a great and useful discovery, it vanishes under the radar where it won't be likely to threaten the well established hierarchical mythology. And there have been congressional representatives past and present, who discussed the interests of American Indians in their districts as though they all should be invited to "go back to China."
Our relationship to our fellow creatures of the world around us is fundamentally different, as told by the traditions of the Elders. And it's some ways amusing to see DeLoria bemoan the lack of cooperation between diverse tribes when engaged in government negotiations. Some of these tribes will not forget their displacement by the Sioux, who were invading from the north. This is a good read to self-critique your own world view, and the manner in which it affects your treatment of others. Foremost, DeLoria challenges the assumption that we are all immigrants to this land.
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Aivars Grindulis
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2015
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all good
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A Bhoy in Green.
3.0 out of 5 stars OK book.Reviewed in Japan on 20 February 2010
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This book was fairly well written, but a lot of personal opinion was put in, which is fine, but for this topic, more scientific fact would be good. There were some fine points made about the invalidity of carbon dating, very useful.
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Vine Victor Deloria, Jr. was an American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist. He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped generate national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement. From 1964–1967, he had served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, increasing tribal membership from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the National Museum of the American Indian, which now has buildings in both New York City and Washington, DC.
Deloria began his academic career in 1970 at Western Washington State College at Bellingham, Washington. He became Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona (1978–1990), where he established the first master's degree program in American Indian Studies in the United States. After ten years at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he returned to Arizona and taught at the School of Law.
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