Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions.

• Author: Rocawich, Linda
• Position: Brief Article

Robert Allen Warrior has written occasionally for The Progressive on issues of interest to Native Americans. His book, Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions, has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press. It deals primarily with the thinking of Vine Deloria Jr. and John Joseph Mathews, whom he describes as "two American Indian intellectuals of this century." Naturally enough, though, you should expect to read of spiritual traditions here, too.

I received the galleys of the book just a couple of weeks ago, and they drew me back to that Friday, November 4. After our day was done, John Egerton and I went to the last hour or so of a conversation about the case of Indian activist (and...