Vine Deloria, Jr.

Age: 72

Summary: ground-breaking author and an influential advocate of American Indian rights who was considered as one of the most outspoken and persuasive proponents of Indian cultural and political identity, whose best-known book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto attacked the American Indians' treatment by settlers and the government.

Cause of Death: Aortic aneurysm

Born: March 26, 1933

Died: November 13, 2005

Location: Denver, Colorado