“In the aftermath of the Pine Ridge shootout, Peltier fled to Canada, where he was taken into RCMP custody in February 1976. The arrest was based on an affidavit signed by a woman named Myrtle Poor Bear. Poor Bear claimed to be Peltier’s girlfriend and told U.S....
…I can say this much based on the evidence used to convict Peltier: that is only to say that it falls far short of establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The thin shred of evidence upon which his conviction rode was (at best) circumstantial. It put him...
Leonard Peltier is a Native American hero whom the American government has kept locked up for almost 40 years, much of it in solitary confinement. Peltier was jailed for murder after two FBI agents were killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in...
L’unico indiano buono è quello morto», è il celebre aforisma attribuito al generale P. H. Sheridan, veterano delle guerre indiane negli Usa del XIX secolo; si potrebbe aggiungere: se non morto, almeno in galera. Tali concetti non sembrano del tutto sorpassati. Il caso...
Friday past, members of Sinn Féin Republican Youth Béal Feirste joined a white line picket protest in support of Leonard Peltier… We here in Ireland have a proud reputation of promoting human rights and demanding action against injustice not only in our own land...
