Books Details
Author : Gerry Spence Pages : pages Publisher : Blackstone Publishing Language
: eng ISBN-10 : B07SFSKCJF ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
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.
