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November 24, 2005
Vine Deloria, historian and activist, dies
DENVER (AP) - Vine
Deloria Jr., an influential advo
cate of American Indian rights
and the author of the
groundbreaking "Custer Died
for Your Sins: An Indian Mani
festo," has died. I le was 72.
Deloria, a Sioux Indian, died
Sunday, Nov. 13, of complica
tions from an aortic aneurysm,
said his son, Phil Deloria.
The author was considered
one of the most outspoken -and
persuasive - proponents of
Indian cultural and political iden
tity. "I think he opened Ameri
cans' eyes to the real history of
Native Americans and the injus
tice of past federal policies,"
said John Echohawk, executive
director of the Native Ameri
can Rights Fund in Boulder.
"I think what we saw in
(Deloria's) generation of Native
Americans was this transition of
federal policy from termination
to self-determination, and Vine,
I think, was the real leader in
making that happen," Echohawk
said.
"Through Vine's leadership,
tribes started to stand on their
treaties and their right to self
determination," he said.
As executive director of the
National Congress of American
Indians from 1964 to 1967,
Deloria helped forge a united,
"pan-Indian approach" in deal
ing with the federal government,
said Patricia Limerick, faculty
chair of the Center of the
American West at the Univer
sity of Colorado,
"His role in getting Indian
people heard in the last half of
the 20th century is unparalleled,"
she said. "(I le was able to) get
his message into camps where
it had never been heard."
He was born March 26,
1933, in Martin, S.D., and
served in the Marine Corps
1954 to 1956. He earned de
grees from Iowa State, the
Lutheran School of Theology
and the University of Colorado
School of I-aw, his son said.
1 1c taught at Western Wash
ington University, UCLA, the
Pacific School of Religion,
Colorado College, the Univer
sity of Arizona and the Univer
sity of Colorado, where he re
tired in 2(HX).
Family of inmate files suit against feds
TOPPENISH, Wash.
(AP) - The family of a man
who committed suicide at the
Yakama tribal jail last year has
filed a wrongful-death lawsuit
seeking $1.7 million in damages.
Ricky Owens Sampson, 39,
used a towel to hang himself
from a broken light fixture June
25, 2004. His body was not
found for eight hours because
the jail was staffed by only one
person, who could not conduct
routine cell checks because
of a heavy volume of phone
calls. Sampson's family argues
that his death could have been
prevented if the Bureau of
Indian Affairs had fulfilled its
duty to oversee the jail.
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