My photo album of Vine Deloria Jr.

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), November, 2005 by Harjo, Suzan Shown

Harjo, Suzan Shown Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 11-30-2005 Vine Deloria Jr.'s ideas and writings shaped my life for more than 40 years. I know some of his work by heart and can hear the cadence of his arguments and one-liners in my head. But what I've been remembering since he died on Nov.

13 are mostly black and white snapshots and bits of conversations over countless miles of telephone lines and cigarettes. Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate Deloria's life on Nov. 18 in Golden, Colo., his longtime home and the only place where he liked to write. Relatives came ...