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...
Amnesty International Report 1978 (excerpt)
Excerpt of Amnesty International's annual report covering July 1977 – June 1978 (POL 10/01/1978), including the United States section: the organization's work on the Charlotte Three (James Earl Grant, Charles Parker, T.J. Reddy), its adoption of the Wilmington Ten as Prisoners of Conscience and the campaign for their pardon, trial observation for Leonard Pel...
Free Leonard Peltier! Who is Leonard Peltier?
Introductory pamphlet on Peltier and AIM context.
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...
Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
2003 anthology (Rowman & Littlefield) edited by political philosopher Joy James. Collects essays, letters, and theoretical writings from incarcerated U.S. political prisoners across the Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, American Indian Movement, white anti-imperialist, and Black-feminist generations — including Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Georg...
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...
Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
900+ page omnibus edited by Matt Meyer and published by PM Press / Kersplebedeb in 2008, with a foreword by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and an afterword by Ashanti Alston. The single most comprehensive published anthology of statements, letters, prison writings, support-committee documents, and movement-historical essays on U.S. political prisoners — covering the...
Peltier 8th Circuit Opinion 021761P
Federal appellate ruling in Peltier post-conviction litigation.
Prison News Service — July/August 1991 (Peltier hearing)
Political-prisoner newsletter covering Leonard Peltier's 1991 evidentiary hearing.
Leonard Peltier — What Warriors Do
American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier on what warriors do — from the Freedom Archives audio sample collection. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.