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The martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear  Cover Image Book Book

The martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear / Gerry Spence.

Spence, Gerry, (author.).

Summary:

"The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of compromising the reputation of AIM. This story reveals the struggle of the American Indian people in their attempt to survive in a white world, on land that was stolen from them. We live with Collins and see the beauty that was his, but that was lost over the course of his short lifetime. Today justice still struggles to be heard, not only in this case but many like it in the American Indian nations"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781609809669 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Seven Stories Press first edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2020]
Subject: Collins Catch the Bear > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Murder) > South Dakota > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > South Dakota > History > 20th century.
Lakota > Legal status, laws, etc. > South Dakota > History > 20th century.
Lakota > South Dakota > Biography.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of > North America > History > 20th century.
Indigenous peoples > United States > Government relations > 1934-.
Genre: Biographies.
True crime stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch 978.0049752440092 Colli-S 31681010211175 NONFICPBK Available -


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