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Vine Deloria, Jr., was born in Martin, South Dakota where his father severed as a missionary priest of the Episcopal Church. He attended grade school in Martin and graduated High School at St. James Academy in Faribault, Minnesota. He served in the Marine Corps from 1954 to 1956, and then attended Iowa State University where he received his BA...
Lorenzo Black Lance, of Brulé and Yankton Sioux descent, was born September 13, 1956, in Wagner, South Dakota, on the Yankton Reservation. He attended elementary schools in South Dakota and Minnesota and graduated from Todd County High School in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Reservation in 1974.
Black Lance’s early artistic training included workshops sponsored by the Sand...