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Vine Deloria Jr. was born on March 26, 1933 in Martin, South Dakota. He was from the Sioux tribe of South Dakota. Deloria Jr.’s early elementary education was at school on the reservation. His high school education was obtained from the St. James School in Minnesota. He studied geology for two years at the Colorado School of Mines before enlisting in the Marines. Deloria Jr. served in the Marines from 1954 to 1956. (Bellini, 2008) Upon leaving the Marines, he attended Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1958. That same year he married Barbara Jeanne Nystrom and together they had three children. Vine Deloria Jr. found no career in natural science and decided to follow his family’s pastoral

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