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Native People vs. United States of America: Political Prisoners on Their Own Land
Native People vs. United States of America: Political Prisoners on Their Own Land
Native People vs. United States of America: Political Prisoners on Their Own Land

Native People vs. United States of America: Political Prisoners on Their Own Land

Artist
Date1978
Mediumlithograph on paper
Dimensions11 × 16 7/8 in. (27.9 × 42.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Diane Palley
Object numberPC2020.34.252
DescriptionPoster with illustration of a man in a jail cell and smaller image of a USA flag rotated vertically with a Native American man standing behind the stripes; text reads: "Native People vs. United States of America, Hear me brothers & sisters: Of all Indian Nations, as warriors of our Nations we must show our People the Spirit of Crazy Horse so they may raise off their knees. Hear me brothers & sisters: The cries from the graves of our fallen warriors, Anna Mae Aquash, Joe Kills Right Stuntz, Buddy LaMont, Pedro Bissonette, Larry Casues Are for us not to let their lives here on Mother Earth be wasted and continue the fight for Nation Hood. Hear me brothers & Sisters: Of all Red Nations - become men and women again. These are our children who we must build a better world for. Raise up with me and resist the terroist acts of Genocide against our Nations! Leonard Peltier, POW, Marion Federal Prison, Marion, Illinois/Political Prisoners on Their Own Land."
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