Custer Died for Your Sins

An Indian Manifesto

Recommended by Colin Calloway, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #22 in Native American, Ranked #23 in Native American History

In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria’s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all... more

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Colin Calloway What this collection did was alter the way we think about and discuss Native American history. (Source)


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