IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE: THE CASE OF LEONARD PELTIER

Leonard Peltier, a Native American of Anishinabe/ Lakota descent, gets up at 6:30 a.m. with the other prisoners in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. He eats when they eat and, like everyone else, has to be in his cell at 10:00 p.m. for the last countdown of the day. There is one distinct d...

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Main Author: Bushyhead, Yvonne
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/7726
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjll/vol2/iss1/3
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=yjll&unstamped=1
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Summary:Leonard Peltier, a Native American of Anishinabe/ Lakota descent, gets up at 6:30 a.m. with the other prisoners in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. He eats when they eat and, like everyone else, has to be in his cell at 10:00 p.m. for the last countdown of the day. There is one distinct difference between Peltier and the other prisoners at Leavenworth - widespread solidarity outside the prison.