God is Red, and Custer Died for your Sins: Vine Deloria, Jr.

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God is Red and Custer Died for your Sins: Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
Vine Deloria, Jr. was at times brilliant, fierce, funny, and passionate, and no Native American writer engaged Western culture’s mythologies with such erudite and powerful critiques. At the same time, he offered a vision of his own and other indigenous cultures that revealed their depth and breadth, not to mention their humor. With degrees in both theology and law, Deloria knew American culture at its roots and met it with a deep understanding of indigenous cultures across the world. He argues that indigenous wisdom both anticipated Western sciences and transcended their inherent limitations. Join us as we hear and discuss one of the most powerful indigenous voices.
Photo: from the Vine Deloria papers at the Beinecke Library
About the Speaker:
Greg Salyer, Ph.D. is the President of the Philosophical Research Society. For twenty-five years, he has been an administrator and scholar in higher education institutions, but his highest calling has always been that of teacher. Trained in interdisciplinary studies, Dr. Salyer moves through the disciplines of literature, philosophy, and religious studies looking for and helping his students find practical and profound wisdom in the stories, texts, and ideas created all over the world and throughout history.
About the Series: Voices of Wisdom from Native Cultures
The continent of what would become North America was rich with languages, religions, governments, and infrastructure. It was also rich with wisdom, a wisdom that remains despite hundreds of years of genocide, exile, and cultural appropriation. Tribes and nations that were not outright destroyed by colonialism remained and continued their traditions with creative integrations with Christianity and underground sacred experiences. Eventually, they also began to write of their new experiences in “America” as “Indians” within the context of their tribal native wisdom. The result was a chorus of profound voices that provide the continuation of their own traditions in a hostile environment, a powerful critique of colonial ideologies based in respect for all life, and unique understandings of all humans and our place in the world. Join us as we listen carefully to some of these voices through their works and to how language and landscape combine to create a unique indigenous wisdom.

[@pattayaesl7128]

God is Red is one of the best books I ever read

[@dagforster7627]

Awesome. Best talk I’ve heard in months and I watch a lot of talks. Thank you. Shared. Subscribed.

[@g.8924]

we're not indians , we're not native Americans , we're older than both concepts. We are the people, we are the human beings . - John Trudell

[@grrrund]

Thanks for the daily yes 🌌

[@michael3573]

Thank you. This was enjoyable and educational for me.

[@iamthemaster4186]

Guess I’ll try to complete God is Red before the next class. Thank you my studying was beginning to feel aimless.

[@uzemaza]

Very well done!

[@TRACELHENTZ]

You explain very well. Mari Jo Moore and I dedicated a book to Vine: Unravelling the Spreading Cloth of Time

[@DriveByShouting]

I was taught all Tribes were peace loving, nonviolent and didn’t believe in taking land, violence or massacres.
What one Tribe did to another Tribe is exactly what the US Federal Government did to the Natives. Little Bighorn for example was stolen Crow land, and is Crow land again.
The Tribes were warring over land for Hundreds of years before any European took a breath here. I always found that ironic.

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We are watching Greg! Don't see the link to donate

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The land is no one's which is what the Indians said. You cannot own land it belongs to the universe.

[@annush3880]

"This is not about feeling guilty, I don't think that's a useful emotion for anything" (...) I do not agree with this retoric sentence; I think a little guilt can help as it helped Christianity to brainwash the "Indians" to this day. I am European and my husband is Ojibway from Cowessess band; I do feel guilty for the pain we have done and WE STILL DO to this once beautiful Earth and Her living beings. We still continue on this path of consumerism; we eat spirits (as would say John Trudell) every single day and we do not feel the suffering of other beings - that we classify as "animals" with the same pretencious logic that we classified the First People as "savages" and later "childrens" and then "alcoholics" and then "New Born Christians". This moto about the "responsability" that is supposed to be better than the guilt is quite comfortable because us, the so.called civilized-ones we love to take responsabilities but as we please ! I feel guilty, guilty for all what we did and still do; guilty to be stocked in this genocidal paradigm; I feel guilty because this is the only sincere thing I can do to show my love and my respect.

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