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Vine Deloria

    26 marzo 1933 – 13 novembre 2005

    Vine Deloria Jr. è stato un importante autore, teologo, storico e attivista nativo americano. La sua opera è rinomata per l'acuta analisi dell'identità, della spiritualità e della politica dei nativi americani. Attraverso i suoi scritti, ha sfidato le narrazioni dominanti e ha messo in luce le persistenti ingiustizie subite dai popoli indigeni. Il significato letterario di Deloria risiede nella sua instancabile difesa delle voci indigene e nella sua profonda comprensione delle complesse problematiche che le comunità native devono affrontare.

    Alce Nero parla
    Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties
    The nations within : the past and future of American Indian sovereignty
    How Shall I Live My Life?
    C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions
    Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader
    • The Indian Affair

      • 98pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      The book delves into the history of broken treaties with Native Americans, highlighting the injustices they faced and the individuals, agencies, and corporations involved in these betrayals. It offers a critical examination of the role of Christian communities in these events, revealing their complicity in the swindling of Indigenous rights. Deloria's unflinching approach sheds light on the systemic issues that have persisted throughout history, making it a significant exploration of Native American relations and advocacy for justice.

      The Indian Affair2023
    • C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions

      • 226pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      While visiting the United States, C. G. Jung visited the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, where he spent several hours with Ochwiay Biano, Mountain Lake, an elder at the Pueblo. This encounter impacted Jung psychologically, emotionally, and intellectually, and had a sustained influence on his theories and understanding of the psyche. Dakota Sioux intellectual and political leader, Vine Deloria Jr., began a close study of the writings of C. G. Jung over two decades ago, but had long been struck by certain affinities and disjunctures between Jungian and Sioux Indian thought. He also noticed that many Jungians were often drawn to Native American traditions. This book, the result of Deloria's investigation of these affinities, is written as a measured comparison between the psychology of C. G. Jung and the philosophical and cultural traditions of the Sioux people. Deloria constructs a fascinating dialogue between the two systems that touches on cosmology, the family, relations with animals, visions, voices, and individuation.

      C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions2022
      4,5
    • How Shall I Live My Life?

      On Liberating the Earth from Civilization

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean Moore reminding us that our bodies are made of mountains, rivers, and sunlight; or Vine Deloria asserting that our dreams tell us more about the world than science ever can, the activists and philosophers interviewed in How Shall I Live My Life? each bravely present a few of the endless forms that resistance can and must take.

      How Shall I Live My Life?2008
      4,3
    • Spirit & Reason is a collection of the works of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century—Vine Deloria, Jr. Author of such classics as Red Earth, White Lies, and God is Red , Deloria takes readers on a momentous journey through Indian country and beyond by exploring some of the most important issues of the past three decades. The essays gathered here are wide-ranging and essential and include representative pieces from some of Deloria's most influential books, some of his lesser-known articles, and ten new pieces written especially for Spirit & Reason .Tellingly, in the course of reviewing his body of work, Deloria found much that he had written in the past remained current and compelling because "people have not made much progress in resolving issues." Whether disputing theories of religion and science, examining the problems of modern education, or expounding on our understanding of the world, Deloria consistently urges readers toward an intimate connection with the world in which we live. For those familiar with Deloria's works as well as those discovering him for the first time, this essential anthology will teach, provoke, and enlighten in equal measure.

      Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader1999
      4,4
    • Alce Nero parla

      Vita di uno stregone dei sioux Oglala

      Poco dopo la metà del secolo scorso, tra i monti e le colline del Dakota, il giovane Alce Nero vide salire i primi bianchi. Irrompevano in quei luoghi felici a cercare un inutile "metallo giallo, che adoravano e che li rendeva pazzi". In pochi anni il delicato equilibrio tra l'uomo, la natura e gli animali, sul quale era fondata la vita dei Sioux, fu distrutto per sempre. Nell'estate del 1931, per giorni e giorni, Alce Nero parlò a John Neihardt, appassionato rievocatore della storia del West. Con la naturale autorità degli antichi cantori epici il vecchio stregone narrò la sua vita e le vicende più tragiche della storia del suo popolo. In pagine memoriabili, intrise di sapienza antica, il mondo occidentale appare come una terra irreale e misteriosa, un incanto malvagio da cui fuggire.

      Alce Nero parla1988
      4,1
    • Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties

      An Indian Declaration of Independence

      An Indian spokesman calls for the federal government to reopen treaty-making procedures

      Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties1985
      4,2