Records
1995 Leonard Peltier Freedom Calendar
Art, timeline, and American Indian Movement history compiled for the 1995 Peltier freedom campaign.
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Free Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk
Native American Solidarity Committee defense pamphlet on the Skyhorse-Mohawk case — the AIM activists held nearly four years awaiting trial in the 1974 George Aird murder before their May 25, 1978 acquittal. Covers the FBI informant Douglas Durham's role in the prosecution, the defendants' biographies with portraits, and the movement's analysis of the case a...
Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen's landmark 1983 (Viking) book-length investigation of the FBI's war against the American Indian Movement on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in the 1970s, the 1975 Oglala firefight that left FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams and AIM member Joseph Stuntz dead, and the federal frame-up of Leonard Peltier. Held off bookstore shelves f...
Revolutionary Cause, Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1977)
International Working Women's Day issue of the August Twenty-Ninth Movement (Marxist-Leninist) newspaper. Carries the fullest movement-side account of the Skyhorse-Mohawk case — the immunized witnesses, the jail beatings, forced drugging and solitary confinement, the Ventura County Bar Association's "People vs. Tonto" skit, and Skyhorse's Oxnard prison lette...
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
Companion volume to Agents of Repression (1988). Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's 1990 South End Press compilation reproduces hundreds of pages of FBI COINTELPRO documents — released under FOIA — covering the Bureau's operations against the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the New Left and the anti-war...
The FBI Takes AIM
Account of the FBI grand-jury attack on the American Indian Movement.