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The martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear  Cover Image Book Book

The martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear

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"--

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  • ISBN: 9781609809669 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    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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