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April 22
Author Ole Rolvaag.On this date, April 22, 1876 noted author Ole E. Rolvaag, writer of Giants in the Earth, was born on Donna Island, Norway.
Source:http://people.mnhs.org/authors/biog_detail.cfm?PersonID=Rolv336
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March 26
Lakota scholar and thinker Vine Deloria, Jr.On this date, March 26, 1933, Lakota scholar and thinker Vine Deloria, Jr. was born.
Sources: http://www.bookrags.com/biography-vine-deloria-jr/ and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_Deloria,_Jr.Vine Deloria, Jr. (born 1933) is known as a revolutionary thinker who speaks out against the decadence of U.S. culture and insists that young Native Americans receive traditional teachings before exposing themselves to the philosophies of the dominant Euro-American culture. Through his widely published books, he has brought greater understanding of Native American history and philosophy to a vast global audience.
Quote from Vine Deloria, Jr.:
Source: http://www.indigenouspeople.net/vine.htm
"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. Today with an information `superhighway' now looming on the horizon, we are told that a lack of access to information will doom people to a life of meaninglessness -- and poverty. As we look around and observe modern industrial society, however, there is no question that information, in and of itself, is useless and that as more data is generated, ethical and moral decisions are taking on a fantasy dimension in which a `lack of evidence to indict' is the moral equivalent of the good deed."
Todd Epp
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