Indians in the Curriculum:
20 Handouts for Middle and High School
History and Social Studies
By Kerry Dunne

Handout 20 Activities: Leonard Peltier, An American Political Prisoner

Background:

By Philip Martin in Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, p. 151, edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson, 2nd edition, Rethinking Schools, www.rethinkingschools.org/, Milwaukee, 1998, 189 pp.

Study and Discuss:

1.     Who is Leonard Peltier?

2.     What was he convicted of?

3.     Why has Leonard Peltier's case become so controversial?

4.     Do you think his case merits an appeal? Why or why not?

Resources 20: Leonard Peltier, An American Political Prisoner