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Book SynopsisVine 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.
Trade Review"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
