Vine Deloria Jr., R.I.P.

Vine Deloria died in Colorado.

"Deloria told The Times then that he continued to view Custer as the Adolf Eichmann of the Plains. Eichmann was the Nazi official in charge of implementing Hitler's extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust, in particular Jews.

'Soldiers were nothing to him, except tools,' Deloria told The Times, describing Custer as a psychopath. 'The soldiers were not defending civilization. They were crushing another society.'"

"Memorial contributions may be made to the Vine Deloria Scholarship Fund, c/o The American Indian Scholarship Fund, Attn: Rick Williams, 8333 Greenwood Blvd., Denver, CO 80221."