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.
Copyright:
1999
Book Details
Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781250119285
Related ISBNs:
9780312203542
Publisher:
ST. MARTIN'S PUBLISHING GROUP
Date of Addition:
07/01/24
Copyrighted By:
Crazy Horse Spirit, Inc., and Arden Editorial Services, L.L.C.