God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
Vine Deloria Jr.
Language: English
Pages: 344
ISBN: B017YG6PEW
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Contributor note: Forward by George E. Tinkler and Leslie Marmon Silko
Publish Year note: First published in 1972
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First published in 1972, God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no repsponsibilities to the natural world." It is time again to listen to Vine Deloria Jr.'s powerful voice, telling us about religious life that is independent from Christianity and that reveres the interconnectedness of all living things.
Vine's books influenced our generation and are as important to United States culural history as are books by Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. This will be appreciated by future generations when U.S. history ceases to be fabricated for the glory of the white man. In God is Red Vine explains how Christianity is the root cause of this great weakness of the United States—the inablity to respect to respect or tolerate those who are different. Clearly, this weakness of the United States has only worsened in recent years, with wars against former allies Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden...God is Red should be read and re–read by Americans who want to understand why the United States keeps losing the peace, war after war. — from the forward by Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony.
the most comprehensive understanding of world ages, as Frank Waters and White Bear recount in The Book of the Hopi. These people believed that they had survived three world destructions and that each world had been marked by peculiar circumstances. Before each destruction they were given special instructions for survival, and as each new world began they received songs and ceremonies designed for living in the new world.Their ceremonial life would end with each world destruction. Other tribes had
“old boy network” of American archaeology. The most telling point in his book, in my opinion, is the fact that no ancient peoples could have constructed astronomical tables that would predict eclipses unless they had access to observations spread over 120 degrees of arc in two directions. This suggests that there was a worldwide culture that coordinated information or that our basic ideas of astronomy were given to us as an intact body of knowledge. 1. Edward Holland Spicer reproduces a Tohono
Earth went even further into the comet’s tail, it was caught in an electromagnetic vise and its axis tilted, resulting in the sudden destruction of the Near East’s major cities. The catastrophe was worldwide, traumatic, and highly destructive. Rivers reversed themselves. Islands disappeared into the sea, other islands emerged. Mountains crashed skyward where peaceful strata had lain for 123 ▲ GOD IS RED centuries. A global hurricane ensued, leveling forests in a moment. Monstrous lakes were
peoples would be only peripherally affected by these ancient astronaut intrusions. Most tribal peoples no social forms or beliefs that would suggest that they were part of the civilized complex that we find in the Near Eastern civilizations. Many of them do have legends about people from the skies visiting them and intermarrying with them. Much of the food-preparing knowledge and domestic skills are said to have been brought to them by remote-culture heroes who spent some time instructing the
up the site of a white colonial settlement, all hell would have broken loose. The general attitude of the whites, however, was that they were the true spiritual descendants of the original Indians and that the contemporary Indians were foreigners who had no right to complain about their activities. Everyone in Minnesota took sides in the dispute. Few non-Indians understood the Indian objections. Because Minnesota was at that time trying to levy an additional tax on Indian reserves, it was