Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

by Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden (Editor), Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Introduction), Ramsey Clark (Preface by)

Overview

Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever since--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312263805
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	06/28/2000
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	57,984
Product dimensions:	5.05(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Leonard Peltier emerged as a Native American leader in the 1960s, was arrested in 1976 in Canada and extradited. He has been in prison ever since and is now confined at Leavenworth. Prison Writings is his first book.

Harvey Arden is the author and co-author of several books, including Wisdomkeepers and Travels in a Stone Canoe (both with Steve Wall) and Noble Red Man. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Editorial Reviews

A classic of prison literature… It is also a cry for help, an accusation against monstrous injustice, a beautiful expression of man's soul, demanding release.

Howard Zinn