Leonard Peltier was wrongly convicted of murder and has been locked up for 46 years. He is 78 years old now.

The fed attorney who prosecuted the case says he was wrong.

The judge who denied a retrial says he was wrong.

Both are asking #ClemencyForPeltier @POTUS 46 years. Almost 60% the avg. lifespan of a Native man in the US. #ClemencyForPeltier

Some facts:
• The key witness recanted & said the FBI coerced her to lie
• No witness saw the actual crime
• There is no evidence that Peltier committed the crime.

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159 years ago today, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass hanging in United States history.

38 men hung simultaneously, the day after xmas, with over 4000 settlers watching and celebrating.

These men were from my tribe. These men were my grandfathers. Tipi Hdonice

Wiyatatuŋwaŋ

Tažu ša

Hiŋhaŋ šuŋkoyagmani

Maza Bomidu

Wapaduta

Wahena

Snamani

Ȟdabiyaŋke

Dowaŋ niye

Šuŋkaska

Hepaŋ

Tuŋkaŋ ičatamani

Iteduta

Abdačha

Hepidaŋ

Maȟpiyatenažiŋ

Henry Milord

Dan Little, Chaskadaŋ

Baptiste Campbell

Tatekaǧe

A better tomorrow is not possible if white supremacists are allowed to kill today. A just future will not come if the arms of justice are slathered in the supremacist codings of the past.

Look I’m nobody really. But I’ve been fortunate to have met ppl way smarter than me: traditional Indigenous scholars, academics, scientists, economists etc etc.

And via their lessons I’ve come to see how fucking critical the situation is.

We are in climate chaos. I’ve had cowboy coffee w/ Nebraska farmers - who talk of the land with sincere reverence & fight Big Oil from destroying their property.

I’ve marched w/ Sarayaku womxn fighting oil in the Amazon.

We are in climate chaos.

I’m so worried for my friends and relatives of the United Houma Nation and other Chitamacha tribes in Louisiana. News outlets won’t say it but there are a lot of Native communities gonna get hit by #HurricaneIda. #HurricaneIda will make landfall in the heart of the United Houma Nation. Native communities who have lived in the bayou for generations. Prayers and love to our folks who will carry the brunt of the storm head-on.

I once did a series of toxic masculinity workshops at a state prison in Minnesota. They were some of the most humbling & engaging conversations I ever had w/ fellow men. Mostly native & black men with a few hmong brothers & a couple white dudes. It was the discussion about trauma & the limitations of what it means to be a man that hit the hardest. To see/hear/feel the repercussions of hurt boys who never healed, who remain in many ways emotionally traumatized kids who've hurt others, pains me.