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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI s War on the American Indian
by Peter Matthiessen
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On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of AIM, the American Indian Movement, were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary.
Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book. In a comprehensive history of the desperate Indian efforts to maintain their traditions, Matthiessen reveals the Lakota tribe's long struggle with the U.S. government, from Red Cloud's War and Little Big Horn in the nineteenth century to the shameful discrimination that led to the new Indian wars of the 1970s.
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- Penguin Books Brand
- Mar 1, 1992 Pub Date:
- 9780140144567 ISBN-13:
- 0140144560 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 8.34 in * 1.19 in * 5.52 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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