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A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial. Reprint.
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First Sentence edit
Hear ye, Dakotas! When the Great Father at Washington sent us his chief soldier <Colonel William Harney> to ask for a path through our hunting grounds, a way for his iron road to the mountains and the western sea, we were told that they wished merely to pass through our country, not to tarry among us, but to seek for gold in the far west.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Book I
1. Thieves Road: The Oglala Lakota, 1835-1965
2. The Upside Down Flag: The American Indian Movement, 1968-73
3. To Wounded Knee: February-May 1973
4. The Wounded Knee Trials: January-September 1974
5. The New Indian Wars: AIM Versus the FBI, 1972-75
6. The U.S. Puppet Government: Pine Ridge and Dick Wilson, 1975
Book II
7. The Shoot-Out I: June 26, 1975
8. The Shoot-Out II: June 26, 1975
9. The "Reservation Murders" Investigation: June-September 1975
10. The Fugitives I: July-November 1975
11. The Fugitives II: November 1975-May 1976
12. The Trial at Cedar Rapids: June-July 1976
13. The Trial at Fargo: <arch-April 1977
Book III
14. The Escape: Lompoc Prison and the Los Angeles Trial
15. The Real Enemy
16. Another Important Matter: Myrtle Poor Bear and David Price, 1976-81
17. Forked Tongues: The Freedom of Information Act and the New Evidence, 1980-81
18. In Marion Penitentiary
19. Paha Sapa: The Treaty, the Supreme Court, and the Return to the Black Hills
20. Red and Blue Days
Epilogue
Afterword by Martin Garbus
Notes
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Matthiessen (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0-14-014456-0
Page Count: 628
Publisher: Viking Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0-14-014456-0
Page Count: 628
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E93 .M46 1983
- Dewey: 305.8'97'073
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Native American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Ethnic Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Social Groups
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › History › Americas › Native American
- Books › Law › Constitutional Law › Human Rights
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