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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.