# Vine Deloria Jr. (@vine-deloria-jr)

Vine Victor Deloria Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005) was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights. He is widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Vine Deloria Jr.'s public record._

## Topics

- [Evidence and Limits](/@vine-deloria-jr/evidence-and-limits.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Documented Work](/@vine-deloria-jr/documented-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Field and Context](/@vine-deloria-jr/field-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://id.loc.gov/search/?q=Vine%20Deloria%20Jr.&q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames
- blog: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Vine%20Deloria%20Jr.
- blog: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=Vine%20Deloria%20Jr.

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "vine-deloria-jr", "question": "…"}`.