On a hot June morning in 1975, a shoot-out between FBI agents and
American Indians erupted on a reservation near Wounded Knee in
South Dakota. Two FBI agents and one Indian died. Eventually four
Indians, all members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were
indicted on murder charges, Twenty-two years late, one of them,
Leonard Peltier, is still serving two consecutive life sentences.
The story of what really happened and why Matthiessen is convinced
of Peltier's innocence, forms the central narrative in this classic
work of investigative reporting. But Mathiessen also reveals the
larger issues behind the Pine Ridge shoot-out: systematic
discrimination by the white authorities; corporate determination to
exploit the uranium deposits in the Black Hills; the breaking of
treaties; and FBI hostility towards the AIM, which was set up to
bring just such issues to light. When this book was first published
it was immediately the subject of two $25 million-dollar legal
actions that attempted to suppress it permanently. After eight
years of court battles, ending with a Supreme Court judgement,
Mathiessen won the right to tell Peltier's and his people's story.
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