Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933–2005)

Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005) was born and raised in South Dakota, the son and grandson of Dakota Sioux Indian leaders. In 1965, he began serving as the Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians, and worked tirelessly to mobilize Indian people toward effective participation in the American political process. A noted scholar of American Indian legal, political and religious studies, he is the author of numerous works, including the 1969 bestseller Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, God is Red (1973) and The Metaphysics of Modern Existence (1979). — biography from C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive… (més)