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Capitalist judgment, racist justice: Leonard Peltier denied freedom again
Monday, July 29, 2024
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There is a saying that reverberated throughout Indian Country when Leonard Peltier was convicted in 1977: “If the government can’t get the Indian they want, then they get the Indian they can.”
The same rank injustice that surrounded his imprisonment and condition then continues today. On July 2, the United States Parole Commission denied the legendary Indigenous activist his latest bid for freedom. Peltier is the longest-held political prisoner in the U.S. prison system, having been incarcerated for the last 47 years.
Peltier was framed up in the slaying of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975 and has been jailed for almost a half century over the charges. He now has life-threatening health problems at 79 years old.
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Albert Bender is a Cherokee activist, historian, political columnist, and freelance reporter for Native and Non-Native publications. He is currently writing a legal treatise on Native American sovereignty and working on a book on the war crimes committed by the U.S. against the Maya people in the Guatemalan civil war He is a consulting attorney on Indigenous sovereignty, land restoration, and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) issues and a former staff attorney with Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma (LSEO) in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
This article originally appeared on People's World. It is published under a Creative Commons license.
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