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COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials

This collection features raw materials from the 2010 Freedom Archives production COINTELPRO 101.

Documents

Incident at Oglala Clips Incident at Oglala Clips
Date: 4/22/2009Call Number: C 10 040Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Documentary directed by Michael Apted on Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Following 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, and amid tensions between US government and Lakota Sioux, two FBI agents and one Native American killed by gunfire on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Peltier was later arrested and imprisoned, although there was little direct evidence, and others charged earlier were found not guilty on the basis of legitimate self-defense. Narrated by Robert Redford (also the executive producer), the film revisits the scene of the shooting and assembles archival footage and interviews to show how Peltier was never granted a fair trial, while painting a larger portrait of social injustice in view of the contemporary living conditions of Native Americans.
Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 1) Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 1)
Call Number: C 10 059Format: CDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Leonard Peltier, Native American Activist, on his past and his now present time in prison.
Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 2) Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 2)
Call Number: C 10 060Format: CDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Leonard Peltier, Native American Activist, on his past and his now present time in prison.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 132Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism. From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. In 1974, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights.