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Sign up todayIn the Spirit of Crazy Horse
The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement
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Mark Bramhall
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28 hours 41 minutes
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“Matthiessen’s work here is detailed and raises many questions. Few can read this book and come away without a strong feeling that Peltier, the Lakota of Pine Ridge, and Native Americans in general have been made to suffer largely for the crime of being Native Americans. If you have any interest in modern day Native America, In The Spirit of Crazy Horse is a must read.”
— Bud • Quail Ridge Books
On a hot June morning in 1975, a fatal shoot-out took place between FBI agents and American Indians on a remote property near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in which an Indian and two federal agents were killed. Eventually, four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges in the deaths of the two agents. Leonard Peltier, the only one to be convicted, is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary.
Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance. In this controversial book, Peter Matthiessen brilliantly explicates the larger issues behind the shoot-out, including the Lakota Indians' historical struggle with the US government, from Red Cloud's war and Little Big Horn in the nineteenth century to the shameful discrimination that led to the new Indian wars of 1970s.
This powerful book was censored and kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history.
Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Snow Leopard. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974. He was cofounder of the Paris Review and won two National Book Awards, the 2000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 2010 Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression.
Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their “Best Voices of the Year.” He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.
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“An important and angry book that belongs on the shelf containing A Century of Dishonor, Custer Died for Your Sins, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.”
“A giant of a book…Indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent.”
“Meticulously researched…A courageous document.”
“A book of enormous importance…You have to believe that Crazy Horse would have loved its renegade spirit and unflinching reach for the truth.”
“By the time I had turned the final page, I felt angry enough…to want to shout from the rooftops, ‘Wake up, America, before it is too damned late!’ For Matthiessen, in this extraordinary, complex work, powerfully propounds several large and disturbing themes which the white majority in America will ignore at extreme peril.”
“Narrator Mark Bramhall can pronounce the extensive vocabulary of American Indian languages, and his voice brings to mind what modern Caucasians might imagine to be the speech patterns of eighteenth-century Native Americans trying to speak English.”
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