"they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right

On this day in 1975 after several years of terrorizing the Pine ridge Indian Reservation by members of the BIA, two FBI agents attempt to enter, and initiate a shootout at, an AIM (American Indian Movement) camp at Jumping Bull Ranch within the Reservation

The two FBI agents are killed along with Lakota tribe member Joe Stuntz.

Three American Indian Movement (AIM) Leaders; Bob Robideau, Dino Butler and Leonard Peltier were charged with the murder (on later admitted coerced testimony) Robideau, and Butler were tried and acquitted of the crime on the grounds of “self defense”. However Leonard Peltier who had been fighting extradition in Canada, Once returned to the United States was convicted of the crime in a separate trial.

Despite the self defense verdict no one was ever charged for the murder of Joe Stuntz

Any of the shortcomings of the initial prosecutions of Robideau, Butler were “miraculously” found or testimony fabricated for the trial of Leonard Peltier. And all of the motions that were allowed for the initial defense of Robideau, Butler were not allowed by the judge for the Peltier defense (the judge was changed after the initial not guilty verdict).

The FBI still holds over 6,000 pages on the Leonard Peltier case which they refuse to release for "National Security reasons."

Leonard Peltier has been declared to be a “political prisoner” by Amnesty International, and the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights.

"The people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way.

We want freedom, rather than to be intergrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....

we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here.

They say, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."
-Grand Council 1927