Prison Writings My Life Is My Sun Dance,9780312263805

Prison Writings My Life Is My Sun Dance

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ISBN13: 9780312263805
ISBN10: 0312263805
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-16
Publisher(s): St. Martin's Griffin
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Summary

Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever since-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. This wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicles 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.

Author Biography

Leonard Peltier emerged as a Native American leader in the 1960s, was arrested in 1976 in Canada and extradited. He has been in prison ever since and is now confined at Leavenworth. This is his first book.

Harvey Arden is the author and co-author of several books, including Wisdomkeepers and Travels in a Stone Canoe (both with Steve Wall) and Noble Red Man. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
A Prayer xi
Preface xiii
former Attorney General Ramsey Clark
Author's Foreword xxiii
In My Own Voice
1(40)
Aboriginal Sin
16(6)
My Life Is a Prayer for My People
22(4)
The Heart of the World
26(1)
In the Shadowed Night
27(6)
The Knife of my Mind
33(6)
I Am Everyone
39(2)
Who I Am
41(18)
An Eagle's Cry
48(11)
Crowing Up Indian
59(28)
My Crime's Being an Indian
65(22)
Becoming Political
87(34)
That Day at Oglala: June 26, 1975
121(16)
A Life in Hell
137(62)
A Message to Humanity
199(19)
We Are Not Separate
213(1)
Forgiveness
214(1)
Difference
215(1)
The Message
216(2)
Editor's Note 218(5)
Appendices 223

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