This book that was banned from the US for eight years and covers the events leading up to the 1975 violence at Wounded Knee, the shoot-out, Leonard Peltier's extradition, the Supreme Court case, and his subsequent conviction. Matthiessen focuses on the injustice inflicted on Peltier and argues that he deserves a new and just trial. His book which covers the "most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history" was banned from the US for eight years.
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