In the Spirit of Crazy Horse The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

Peter Matthiessen, Martin Garbus

eBook - 1992

An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise 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 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. Kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Authors
Peter Matthiessen, Martin Garbus
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Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9781101663172
Release Date3/1/1992
Kindle Book
ASINB00JJXV7EC
Release Date3/1/1992
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781101663172
Release Date3/1/1992