Prison Writings

Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden (Editor), Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Introduction by)

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Author
Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden (Editor), Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Introduction by)
Publish Date
2000-06-16
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
St. Martin's Griffin
Subtitle
My Life Is My Sun Dance
Number of Pages
272
Edition
First Edition
ISBN-10
0312263805
ISBN-13
9780312263805
SKU:
9780312263805

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.