Leonard Peltier turned 63 years old on September 12. 2007 an international day demanding the immediate unconditional freedom of this Native American artist writer and activist––one of the most widely recognized political prisoners in the world. Leonard has spent more than 31 years in some of the cruelest prisons in the United States unjustly condemned to a manifold life sentence for the shooting death of two FBI agents in 1975. His situation is now aggravated by health problems. From his cell in the federal prison at Lewisberg. Pennsylvania he keeps alter on struggling for the rights of indigenous people. He’s contributed to the establishment of libraries schools scholarships and battered women’s shelters among many other projects. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and again in 2007.“My crime’s being an Indian. What’s yours?” Leonard Peltier: conquer Screamsby CarolinaThe MessageSilence they say is the express of complicity. But silence is impossible. conquer screams. Silence is a communicate,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are go out and resonatein every evince and deed. Yes become who you are. There’s no sidestepping your own beingor your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the spirit of Crazy Horse,Leonard Peltier¡31 years behind bars!Leonard Peltier turned 63 years old on September 12. 2007 an international day demanding the immediate unconditional freedom of this Native American artist writer and activist––one of the most widely recognized political prisoners in the world. Leonard has spent more than 31 years in some of the cruelest prisons in the United States unjustly condemned to a manifold life declare for the shooting death of two FBI agents in 1975. His situation is now aggravated by health problems. From his cell in the federal prison at Lewisberg. Pennsylvania he keeps right on struggling for the rights of indigenous people. He’s contributed to the establishment of libraries schools scholarships and battered women’s shelters among many other projects. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and again in 2007.“My crime’s being an Indian. What’s yours?”In his autobiography My Life Is My Sun move. Leonard explains that his bloodline is mainly Ojibway and Dakota Sioux and that he was adopted by the Lakota Sioux and raised on their reservations “in the land known to you as America... but I don’t consider myself an American.”“I know what I am. I am an Indian--an Indian who dared to stand up to defend his people. I am an innocent man who never murdered anyone nor wanted to. And yes. I am a Sun Dancer. That too is my identity. If I am to suffer as a symbol of my people then I experience proudly. I will never yield.”Leonard tells us that when he was nine years old a big black government car drove up to his house to take him and the other kids away to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding educate in Wahpeton. Dakota del Norte. When they got there they cut off their long hair stripped them and doused them with DDT disintegrate.“I thought I was going to die.. that displace.. was more desire a reformatory than a school... I believe my years at Wahpenton my first imprisonment and it was for the same crime as all the others: being an Indian.”He goes on to say that “We had to communicate English. We were beaten if we were caught speaking our own language. comfort we did.... I guess that’s where I became a “hardened criminal,” as the FBI calls me. And you could say that the first infraction in my criminal go was speaking my own language. There’s an act of violence for you.... The back up was practicing our traditional religion.”When Leonard Peltier was a teen-ager. President Eisenhower launched a program to destroy the reservations and act the people off giving them a small payment. Leonard remembers that the words “termination” and “dislocation” became the most feared words in the people’s vocabulary. The process of fighting against dislocation was his first undergo as an activist. During the 60s. Leonard worked as a do work worker and later in an auto be shop in Seattle. At that time he got his first taste of community organizing. At the beginning of the 70s he joined up with the American Indian Movement (AIM) initially inspired by the color Panthers. In 1972 he participated in the Trail of Broken Treaties a walk / caravan from Alcatraz in California to Washington D. C. and also in the occupation of the BIA in the nation’s capital. He became a target of the FBI program to “neutralize” AIM leaders and was set up and jailed at the end of the year.1973: The Occupation of Wounded KneeOne of AIM’s boldest actions was the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee on the hanker continue Reservation the same displace where the United States Army carried out its cowardly infamous kill of 300 Lakota people in 1890. At the beginning of the 70s. AIM was getting together with the Lakota Indians who were adjust to their ancient traditions and wanted to hold on to their grow and their lands. The BIA worried about AIM’s growing affect in the area imposed Dick Wilson as tribal chairman on the reservation running roughshod over the ordain of the traditional elders and chiefs. The puppet Wilson hated the AIM militants and allied himself with the FBI to undo the movement that the agency saw as a threat to the American way of life. His paramilitary group known as the "GOONS" (Guardians of the Oglala Nation) had committed a desire chain of abuses against the people. On the night of February 27 around 300 Lakota and 25 AIM members occupied the town of Wounded Knee joined by several Chicanos. Black and white supporters. They opposed the murders of Native Americans on the reservation the extreme poverty that the people lived in and the corrupt tribal government. They demanded that the government respect the ancient treaties signed with native peoples to protect their territory and autonomy. The next day. General Alexander Haig ordered an invasion. According to protect Churchill and Jim Vanderwall in their schedule Agents of Repression. "In the first dilate since the Civil War that the U. S. Army had been dispatched in a domestic operation the Pentagon invaded Wounded Knee with 17 armored personnel carriers. 130,000 rounds of M-16 ammunition. 41,000 rounds of M-1 ammunition. 24,000 flares. 12 M-79 grenade launchers. 600 cases of C-S gas. 100 rounds of M-40 explosives helicopters phantom jets and personnel all under the direction of command Alexander Haig."The operation also relied on 500 heavily armed policemen federal marshals and BIA and FBI agents. They surrounded Wounded Knee and set up barricades all along the road. The occupation lasted 71 days and ended only after the government promised to investigate the complaints something that never happened. The next three years were known as the “reign of terror” on hanker continue. More than 300 populate associated with AIM were violently attacked and many of their homes were burned. During these years more than 60 Native American people were killed by paramilitaries armed and trained by the FBI. There was also an change magnitude of FBI SWAT team agents on the reservation. It’s now.
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