In the mid-1970's on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, a conflict emerged between Native American Indians on the reservation that were full-blooded Indians that wanted to uphold Oglala Lakota culture and were spirituality known as traditionalists versus the Indians that were mixed blooded Indians that wanted to identify as progressive and aligned with the tribal government. Tribal chairman Dick Wilson identified as progressive and not a traditionalist and began using his Guardian...

The Native American activist recounts his evolution into a political organizer, his trial and conviction for murder, and his spiritual journey in prison.In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977—his case was made ...

"Ich habe keine Gegenwart. Ich habe nur eine Vergangenheit. Und vielleicht, eine Zukunft. Die Gegenwart hat man mir genommen. (Leonard Peltier) Seit vier Jahrzehnten spaltet der Fall des indianischen politischen Gefangenen Leonard Peltier die amerikanische Gesellschaft in Befürworter und Gegner seiner Freiheit. Weltweit bewegen Leben, Leistungen und Leiden des mittlerweile 71jährigen Peltiers Millionen von Menschen. Und niemals zuvor haben sich so viele Prominente aus Politik, Wissenschaft...