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Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact

by Vine Deloria Jr. (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God Is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers an alternative view of the continent's history as seen through the eyes and memories of Native Americans. Further, he warns future generations of scientists not to repeat the ethnocentric omissions and fallacies of the past by dismissing Native oral tradition as mere legends.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 01 Aug 1997
ISBN 10: 1555913881
ISBN 13: 9781555913885

Media Reviews
This is Vine Deloria's best book yet. ... Red Earth, White Lies shoots down a whole herd of sacred cows-from Charles Darwin's cow to Samuel Eliot Morison's bull. -Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony Vine Deloria, Jr,. started the whole modern American Indian renaissance. ... Now, in Red Earth, White Lies, he is lambasting scholars and scientists for filling our heads with nonsense while they ignore the traditional knowledge of native tribes. Bound to be controversial, bound to start readers rethinking old concepts. -Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee This is Vine Deloria at his very best-challenging, taunting, acerbic-and powerful. -Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., author of Now That the Buffalo's Gone
Author Bio
Vine Deloria Jr., was a leading Native American scholar, whose research, writings, and teaching have encompassed history, law, religious studies, and political science. He is the former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, and author of numerous books including best-seller God Is Red.