Anthropology and the American Indian: Report of a Symposium
A Report of the Symposium on Anthropology and the American Indian at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Diego, California, November 20, 1970.
"Indians have been cursed above all other people...Indian have anthropologists." This line opens a chapter in Vine Deloria, Jr.'s prolific first book, Custer Died for Your Sins: An American Indian Manifesto (1969), presenting his interpretation of the fraught relationships between American Indians and American anthropologists. The Symposium on Anthropology and the American Indian was held in response to Deloria's salvo, and convened prominent Indian and non-Indian scholars and anthropologists of the time to discuss "the virtues and deficiencies of past and present relationships" and "chart" for the future. The report contains the papers presented by Nancy O. Lurie, Philleo Nash, Omer C. Stewart, Margaret Mead, Beatrice Medicine, Alfonso Ortiz, and Deloria himself, plus edited transcriptions of the panels and discussions. The Indian Historian Press, the publication house of the American Indian Historical Society published this rare volume, was founded in 1964 by Cauhilla author, activist, and philanthropist Rupert Costo and his wife, Jeanette Henry-Costo who was Eastern Cherokee.
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