Vine Deloria Jr.

Standing Rock Sioux · authors

Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005) was a Standing Rock Sioux author whose "Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto" (1969) is one of the most influential works of Native American non-fiction ever written.

Called "the most important Native American intellectual of the 20th century," his legal scholarship shaped modern federal Indian law and tribal sovereignty.