In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Peter Matthiessen
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Peter Matthiessen
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBIs War on the American Indian Movement

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 28 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

On a hot June morning in 1975, a fatal shootout took place between FBI agents and American Indians on a remote property near Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges for the deaths of two federal agents killed that day. Leonard Peltier, the only one to be convicted, is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance. In this controversial book, Peter Matthiessen brilliantly explicates the larger issues behind the shootout, including the Lakota Indians historical struggle with the U.S. government, from Red Clouds war and Little Big Horn in the nineteenth century to the shameful discrimination that led to the new Indian wars of 1970s.

About Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Snow Leopard. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974. He was cofounder of the Paris Review and won two National Book Awards, the 2000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 2010 Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Juliet

This was a very important book and I highly recommend it. However it is very dense to read and comes across like a long legal court document. I would love if it was made into a documentary, as I feel it would be easier to follow all of the different players and their stories. At times I needed to ba......more

Free Leonard Peltier! Why? Well, you have to read this book, but here's a synopsis that nobody but the most diehard 1970s FBI defender can try to deny. Matthiessen documents years of FBI spying on the American Indian Movement, including "turning" insiders, coupled with intimidation tactics and more. Of......more