Quotes from Vine Deloria Jr.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.