Frank Blackhorse

Frank Blackhorse — born Frank Leonard DeLuca and also known as Frank Black Horse — was an American Indian Movement (AIM) figure prosecuted over the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, where he was charged with wounding FBI Special Agent Curtis Fitzgerald on March 11, 1973 and released on a $10,000 bond. After a federal grand jury in Sioux Falls indicted him (August 29, 1974) and he failed to appear for trial (May 19, 1975), he became a fugitive; in the wake of the June 26, 1975 shootout at the Jumping Bull compound on the Pine Ridge Reservation — in which FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams and AIM member Joe Stuntz were killed — he fled with Leonard Peltier and other AIM fugitives into Canada. The RCMP captured Blackhorse and Peltier near Hinton, Alberta on February 6, 1976 and held them at the Oakalla Prison Farm in British Columbia. Unlike Peltier — who was extradited to the United States on December 18, 1976 — Blackhorse was held only briefly (reportedly booked on a minor charge and released within days) and was never extradited. He remained a free man in Canada under the standing U.S. indictment, was reported "free after lengthy court battles" by January 1978, and was last known to be living in Edmonton, Alberta — in effect living in exile from U.S. prosecution ever since.