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Vine Deloria Jr.
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper
An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.
by
Vine Deloria Jr.
via
Art In America
on
July 1, 1972
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