Binding: Paperback
Description: In September of 2022, twenty - five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977 - - his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - - and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book both memoir and manifesto chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
Title: Prison Writings My Life Is My Sun Dance
Author(s): Peltier Leonard, Harvey Arden
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780312263805
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/16/2000
Category: Autobiography: General