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Leonard Peltier

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A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.


— Leonard Peltier


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The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.


— Leonard Peltier


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In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.


— Leonard Peltier


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The FBI has always supported big business and big government.


— Leonard Peltier


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The title track off Today's Empires Tomorrow's ALeonard Peltiers by Canadian band Propagandhi mentions the Pine Ridge shoot-out along with the murder of Anna Mae Aquash. On February 6 1976 he was arrested and extradited from Canada based on an affidavit signed by Myrtle Poor Bear a local Native American woman. Authorities later identified the driver as Peltier.

Peltier is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. Leonard Peltier (born September 12 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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