In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead Four members of AIM, the American Indian Movement, were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and 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, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book In a comprehensive history of the desperate Indian efforts to maintain their traditions, Matthiessen reveals the Lakota tribe s long struggle with the U.S government, from Red Cloud s War and Little Big Horn in the nineteenth century to the shameful discrimination that led to the new Indian wars of the 1970s. Read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement by Peter Matthiessen – kino-fada.fr This book really affected me It made me angry at the injustice that happened to these people Mattiessen really did his research for this book It s a detailed account of the incident at Wounded Knee in the 70 s, AIM American Indian Movement and the trials that followed thereafter Thankfully, the FBI lost in it s attempt to prevent this book from being p...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 andOften the FBI in South Dakota was working, if not hand in hand, a...Sioux at Standing Rock defending their land against big oil and their State minion armies, circa 2016 So you think shit has changed Elegant, passionate investigative muckraking in the grand style messy, gnarly, informative, memorable and anger inducing This is a sweeping, detailed novelistic tour de force that raisesquestions than it answers and sometimes has you questioning the author s veracity while at the same time having you shaking your head in agreement over his findings and con Sioux at Standing Rock defending their land against big oil and their State minion armies, circa 2016 So you think shit has changed Elegant, passionate investigative muckraking in the grand style messy, gnarly,...This saga of the conflict between the U.S government and Native Americans picks up where Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee leaves off, and makes the critical point that as excellent as that earlier book is, contemporary readers might get a false sense of complacency from it, that we live in aenlightened...In the Spirit of Crazy Horse is one of the best non fiction books that I have read The story is a volatile cocktail of violence, poverty, intimidation and historical oppression And then when the FBI gets involved the problems only escalate from there This book logs in at nearly 800 pages The first 200 pages are slow going and quite unnecessary if you already have background on modern Sioux history and the American Indian Movement The story really gains traction with the events in the summer In the Spirit of Crazy Horse is one of the best non fiction books that I have read The story is a volatile cocktail of violence, poverty, intimidation and historical oppression And then when the FBI gets involved the problems only escalate from there This book logs in at nearly 800 pages The first 200 pages are slow going and quite unnecessary if you already have background on modern Sioux history and the American Indian Movement The story really gains traction with the events in the summer of 1975 surrounding the tragic shooout between FBI agents and Leonard Peltier and his associates These events on the Pine Ridge Reservation are the central focus of the remainder of the book continuing right through the epilogue and afterword This book was quite controversial when it was released in 1983 and for many decades since The author, Peter Matthiessen, was certainly sympathetic to the ...I read this book in 1992 as part of a graduate American Indian Law seminar conducted at the University of Colorado Denver UCD with Dr Glenn Morris the head of the Denver chapter of AIM as the instructor It was one ofthan several books used in the seminar but certainly for me one of thememorable and influential Also, the now infamous Dr Ward Churchill was a guest instructor on several occasions He never represented himself as a Tribal member and although the courts have quest I read this book in 1992 as part of a graduate American Indian Law seminar conducted at the University of Colorado Denver UCD with Dr Glenn Morris the head of the Denver chapter of AIM as the instructor It was one ofthan several books used in the seminar but certainly for me one of thememorable and influential Also, the now infamous Dr Ward Chu...Detailed almost to the point of excrutiating, but overall excellent recitation of the events leading up to the killing of 2 FBI agents in Oglala, on the Pine Ridge Reservation Matthiesen s research is painstaking, and once I realized how the book was organized it made sense and I could follow it he hides his explanation in the notes for each section The facts are incredibly convoluted, and there are so many layers to what happened Matthiesen does a pretty good job of tryin to sort it all ou Detailed almost to the point of excrutiating, but overall excellent recitation o...33rd book read in 2017.Number 339 out of 598 on my all time book list.This is the longest audiobook I ve listened to so far and I m glad it occurred to me to speed it up a bit because I was enjoying the information provided but it was starting to drag on a bit long and the library hold was about to expire for the second time I think this is a good book for everyone to better understand the background to the No DAPL movement The connection isn t made until much later in the book, but it s eventually suggested that the attempts by ...This is an important book, and I m impressed with the amount of research and time Matthiessen put into it, and I think the story needed to be told That said, I spent the vast majority of it wishing that an unbiased journalist would come shove him away from his computer, steal his notes, and take over writing the book for him I agree with him on pretty much everything, but still he was so biased that he undermined his own point of view At one point he actually argued that the fact that the mur This is an important book, and I m impressed with the amount of research and time Matthiessen put into it, and I think the story needed to be told That said, I spent the vast majority of it wishing that an unbiased journalist would come shove him away from his comp...

• English
• 13 April 2017
Peter Matthiessen
• Paperback
• 688 pages
• 0140144560
• Peter Matthiessen
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement