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Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
by Vine Deloria, Jr.
New York, New York: Scribner, 1995. 286 pages.
Vine Deloria Jr. is the most important American Indian advocate-scholar of our time. In his many books (such as We Talk, You Listen, Custer Died for Your Sins, God is Red, and The Aggressions of Civilization), he has provided Indians with magnificent arguments based on scholarship to use in validating our existence. He has pricked the non-Indian consciousness with the same material.
Red Earth, White Lies is the latest taunting title indicative of his approach. It is a mixture of facile polemics, sound scholarship, and deliberately extreme provocation. From...