Deloria
didn’t
find
campus
friendly
Vine Deloria, advocate of the
Native American movement and
author of “Custer Died for Your
Sins,” told 500 persons at Oregon
State University Wednesday
night that the University — and
other schools — must “make
decisions to have ethnic studies
programs or not and stop leading
people on.”
Deloria’s comments about the
University came in response to a
question from Larry Calica,
former director of the Univer
sity’s Native American Program.
Deloria said that he had “tried
to go to the University for a
couple of months in 1958 and I
didn’t find them too friendly, to
tell you the truth.”
The American Indian author
told the Gill Colliseum crowd that
the “fourth unseen part of
government,’’ career
beaurocrats. who are “more
interested in making the machine
run than in finding out where the
machine is going.”
1 think if we just use Indian
Affairs as a small example of the
state of affairs of the United
States government and the
various state governments, we
really face an incredible crisis,”
Deloria said. “We face a whole
different type of social movement
in the seventies than we had in
the sixties. In the sixties it was
necessary to get out in the streets
because . . . congress wouldn’t
consider anything,” he said. “It
wasn’t until young people sat in
those senators and
congressmen’s offices, until they
marched up . . . and got those
senators and congressmen to
come out and sit with them that
any action was taken on any of
the civil rights legislation.”, the
author said.
“In the seventies we’re facing a
very different type of situation.
Get out in the streets and that’s
the quickest way to get your head
busted, the quickest way not to
solve the problem.”
“Somehow, in someway, we
have given control of our lives to
people in the civil service, given
control of our lives to the
universities, to career
beaurocrats, people who are
more interested in making the
maching run than in finding out
where the machine is going.”
“The major thing to me is
information, documentation,
analysis and the divelopment of
strategies to break up the crust
on these institutions, adn get
them moving. We’ve got to
narrow the ability of the career
Deloria at University last year.
beaurocrats to impose his
policies on the people that are
served by his institutions.
“What we’re dealing with over
and above any other Indian
problems, education, lack of jobs,
confiscation of fishing rights, is a
fourth unseen part of govern
ment. That’s the career
beaurocrat who’s made up his
mind that certain things belong to
him, and therefore regardless of
what the President of the United
States wants and regardless of
what Congress wants, regardless
of what the Supreme Court
wants, if he decides that he’s got
to have a certain policy ... he
spreads lies, rumors, half-truths,
whatever he wants, until he gets
everybody so confused that they
eventually let his policy go
through, and not the policy of the
electied representatives.”
“There’s not much that I could
tell you about current Indian
Affairs that I could not trace back
to an individual in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, an individual in
the Justice Department, an in
dividual in Health, Education and
Welfare. An individual who 10 or
15 years ago closed his mind and
said this is the way I’m going to
administer my Indian program.
An individual who can’t budge at
the present time, he has civil
service protedtion, he has bud
dies high up in the departments,
he’s always had this job, you
can’t move him. The whole thing
is frozen over.”
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