Spirit and Reason The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader

by Deloria, Jr., Vine; Scinta, Sam; Foehner, Kristen

• ISBN13: 9781555914301
• ISBN10: 1555914306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Summary

A compendium of logic, humor, irreverence, & spirituality from one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century & best-selling authors of our time.

Author Biography

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.

Sam Scinta is president and publisher of Fulcrum Publishing and the creator of Fulcrum's best-selling Speaker's Corner series on contemporary political affairs.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Wilma P. Mankiller
Preface	xi
PART I: PHILOSOPHY
Perceptions and Maturity: Reflections on Feyerabend's Point of View	3	(14)
The Trickster and the Messiah	17	(15)
Relativity, Relatedness, and Reality	32	(8)
If You Think About It, You Will See That It Is True	40	(23)
PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Ethnoscience and Indian Realities	63	(9)
Indians, Archaeologists, and the Future	72	(6)
Low Bridge---Everybody Cross	78	(23)
At the Beginning	101	(22)
A Flock of Anthros	123	(6)
PART III: EDUCATION
Traditional Technology	129	(8)
Knowing and Understanding: Traditional Education in the Modern World	137	(7)
Higher Education and Self-Determination	144	(10)
The Turmoil of Ethnic Studies	154	(5)
The Burden of Indian Education	159	(30)
PART IV: INDIANS
Indian Affairs 1973: Hebrews 13:8	189	(10)
Why Indians Aren't Celebrating the Bicentennial	199	(7)
The American Revolution and the American Indian: Problems in the Recovery of a Usable Past	206	(17)
Kinship with the World	223	(7)
The Popularity of Being Indian: A New Trend in Contemporary American Society	230	(11)
Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation	241	(8)
More Others	249	(8)
The Indian Population	257	(18)
PART V: RELIGION
The Religious Challenge	275	(15)
The Concept of History	290	(15)
Tribal Religions and Contemporary American Culture	305	(18)
Sacred Places and moral Responsibility	323	(16)
Myth and the Origin of Religion	339	(15)
Tribal Religious Realities	354	(15)
Worshiping the Golden Calf: Freedom of Religion in Scalia's America	369	(4)
Credits and Permissions	373	(2)
Index	375