Philip Joseph Deloria is a historian, the son of Vine Deloria, Jr.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

Vine Deloria, Jr. was an American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist. He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto , which helped generate national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement...

, and the great-great grandson of Philip Joseph Deloria, or Tipi Sapa (Black Lodge), for whom he is named. He is also the great-great-great grandson of U.S Army officer

United States Army

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 and painter Alfred Sully

Alfred Sully

Alfred Sully , was a military officer during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars on the frontier. He was also a noted painter.-Biography:...

. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies

American studies

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 from Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1994. Deloria is currently a professor at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 in both the Program in American Culture and the Department of History. He has written a number of books about Indian history and the Indian experience, including Playing Indian

Playing Indian

Playing Indian is a 1999 book by Philip J. Deloria. In it, Deloria discusses the way in which white American men have adopted Indian traditions, images, and clothing, citing examples like the Boston Tea Party, the Improved Order of Red Men, Tammany Hall, Scouting, hippies, and New Agers. Referring...

, a book about the use of Indian costumes, traditions and images by white people.

Published works

• Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ISBN 978-0700614592.
• Playing Indian
  Playing Indian
  Playing Indian is a 1999 book by Philip J. Deloria. In it, Deloria discusses the way in which white American men have adopted Indian traditions, images, and clothing, citing examples like the Boston Tea Party, the Improved Order of Red Men, Tammany Hall, Scouting, hippies, and New Agers. Referring...
  
  . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0300080674.