FREE LEONARD PELTIER! And Other Native American Struggles. Atty. Lew Gurwitz, May 7, 1992; University Of Massachusetts Student Ballroom -

[Amherst]: Legal Services Center, 1992. 16 x 10 ½” Offset lithograph poster in red, blue and black, printed on heavy cardstock. Vertical fold line; one chip with a 0.75 closed tear at top and a small closed tear near bottom. One chip along upper extremity (no text loss); else very good. In 1977, Peltier was convicted of murder for a June 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Tension was high at Pine Ridge since AIM’s seventy-one-day occupation of the village of Wounded Knee in 1973. During the ’75 shootout, two FBI agents were shot and killed. Peltier was convicted of killing the agents and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Amnesty International regarded Peliter as a political prisoner, claimimg that the government falsified evidence. Thus, his conviction should be overturned. Pelier has remained in prison and denied parole, despite heavy grassroots support and legal appeals. Signed on verso by the collector, J. W. Miller; from his collection of about 100 posters collected in the 1970s around the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Uncommon: OCLC finds no locations.