Leonard Peltier
American
Indian Movement (AIM)
[A victim of the FBI's COINTELPRO programme]
[2011 Sept] Leonard Peltier moved to Florida prison This is nearly 2,000 miles from Leonard's Nation, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, in North Dakota!
[2009] Leonard Peltier's Safety in Jeopardy! In 1978, they made an attempt to assassinate him through another Indian man who was also at Marion prison with LP. But Standing Deer chose to reveal the plot to him instead of taking his life in exchange FOR A CHANCE AT FREEDOM. When Standing Deer was released in 2001, he joined the former Leonard Peltier Defense Committee as a board member. He also began to speak on Leonard’s behalf until his murder six years ago today. Prior to his murder, Standing Deer confided with close friends and associates that the same man who visited him in Marion to assassinate Peltier, had came to Houston, TX and told him that he had better stay away from Peltier and anything to do with him.
[2008] Leanard Pelter: “My crime’s being an Indian. What’s yours?”