Vine Deloria, Jr.

Sioux author Vine Deloria, Jr., died last Sunday. Since the publication of his book Custer Died For Your Sins in 1969, Deloria has been a prominent and sometimes controversial author and activist. We have a dozen or so of Deloria's books. The New York Times obituary is available online, as are a great many other tributes and evaluations of his work (try searching in Google news).