# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vine-deloria-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:23:10.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vine-deloria-jr"
name: "Vine Deloria, Jr."
slug: "vine-deloria-jr"
description: "Vine Victor Deloria Jr. 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. From 1964 to 1967, he served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, increasing its membership of tribes from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the National Museum of the American Indian, which now has buildings in both New York City and in Washington, DC, on the Mall."
tagline: "American writer (1933-2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Vine_Deloria.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-03-26"
deathDate: "2005-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.60126533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump