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fromTruthout
19 hours ago

Family Wants Search for Activist's Remains at Site of Wounded Knee Occupation

After a half-century of uncertainty, all Cheryl Buswell-Robinson wants is the body of her husband, Perry Ray Robinson, to be returned. In March 1973, Robinson called home to Alabama from a conference in Taos, New Mexico, to tell his wife he planned to join the American Indian Movement's takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation where tribal members were protesting then-tribal president Dick Wilson.
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fromTruthout
3 months ago
US politics

"I Have Not Surrendered": Leonard Peltier Remains Committed to Indigenous Rights

Leonard Peltier, after nearly 50 years in prison, received a commutation to home confinement and remains committed to Indigenous rights and cultural survival.
fromThe New Yorker
6 months ago
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Leonard Peltier's Story Isn't Over Yet

Leonard Peltier's sentence was commuted to home confinement, allowing him to return to his tribe after years of imprisonment.
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