Sentence:  While Deloria may have hoped to move anthropologists to be more appreciative, Erdoes simply sets scholars up as straw men for the average non-Indian academic reader to self-servingly scorn. <WSD>Anthros</WSD> are responsible for believing reservation Indians are “warriors without weapons” (1972:36-37) 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An anthropologist.