Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance Coast Salish the authors do not intend

the authors do not intend to provide universal solutions for problems stemming from centuries of colonialism

'" —Gerald Vizenor

With God's Red Son

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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance Coast Salish the authors do not intendIn 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever sincehis case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horseand many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to