Indigenous
Leonard Peltier
Submitted by macho on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 00:56
Leonard Peltier -- a great-grandfather, artist, writer, & indigenous rights activist -- is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976.
A participant in the American Indian Movement, he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the mid-70s where a tragic shoot-out occurred on June 26, 1975. Accused of the murder of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Peltier fled to Canada believing he would never receive a fair trial in the United States.
Benjamin Nottaway
Submitted by macho on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 21:49
Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - On Thursday December 4th a
Quebec judge sentenced Barriere Lake Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway to
forty-five days in jail, in addition to fifteen already served in pre-trial
detention, for participating in peaceful blockades intended to draw
attention to violations of Barriere Lake's rights by the Canadian and Quebec
governments.
Barriere Lake has been demanding that Canada and Quebec honour signed
agreements and that Canada appoint an observer to witness and respect the
