Article: Who is Leonard Peltier and what was he fighting for? (imprisoned for killing FBI agents at Pine Ridge, South Dakota).

By Donna Rae Paquette

Windspeaker Contributor

Twenty-three years, that's a lot of time. In the past 23 years, nations rose and fell, mankind extended his limits to limitless space, peace has come to countries that have been at war for centuries, and war has come to shatter the peace and calm in a variety of communities around the globe.

And, during the last 23 years, men and women, countless, faceless, forgotten human beings, have served time in federal, provincial and state prisons, most for crimes they did commit. But for a few and one in particular, they are serving time for something they did not do. Justice gone awry. It happens.

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