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A 4 page biography that looks at the life of Leonard Peltier, Native American activists who has been held unjustly imprisoned by the US justice system for over twenty-five years. The writer gives the details of his life and imprisonment, as well as this philanthropic work from within prison. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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American political prisoner (Anonymous, 2001). Peltier has spent the last twenty-five years of his life in prison, serving two life terms having been convicted for murdering two FBI agents
- crimes that Peltier swears he did not commit. Amnesty International consider him to be a "political prisoner," who should be "immediate and unconditionally released" (Anonymous, 2001). This opinion is
shared by such international luminaries as Nelson Mandela; Rigoberta Menchu, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights; the Dalai Lama; The European Parliament, and the Kennedy Memorial Center for Human
Rights (Anonymous, 2001). How Peltier came to be behind bars is a complicated story that has more to do with politics then with Peltier. Peltier was born on
the Anishinabe (Chippewa) Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota to a large family (13 brothers and sisters). He grew up in stark poverty. At the age of eight, he
was taken by the federal government to a residential boarding school for Native American children (Anonymous, 2001). At this school, the children were forbidden to speak Native American
languages and all aspects of their native culture was suppressed, in government-mandated assimilation. As an adolescent, Peltier was returned to his family , but it was at this time that
the government chose to push Native Americans off their reservations and into urban settings (Anonymous, 2001). The resulting protests were Peltiers first exposure to Native American resistance (Anonymous, 2001). Peltier
recalls protests by his people against the Bureau of Indian Affairs that were motivated by hunger, as the new federal policy withdrew federal food assistance from all Native Americans who
refused to leave their land (Anonymous, 2001). At this time, Peltier began to travel with his father as a migrant farm worker. While they followed the harvests, they stayed
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