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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 Leonard Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement, shown in a jail cell. A smaller image at right featrures a U.S. flag rotated vertically and revealing a Native American man standing behind the stripes, now appearing as the bars of a jail cell. Prominent text above and below reads: "Native People vs. United States of America/ Political Prisoners on Their Own Land." Additional text at right continues: "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 [sic] 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 terrorist acts of Genocide against our Nations! Leonard Peltier, POW (Prisoner of War), Marion Federal Prison, Marion, Illinois."
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