workingclasshistory:

On this day, 6 February 1976, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was captured in Canada on the basis of fictitious affidavits generated by the FBI. He was later extradited to the US, where he is still in prison supposedly for the killing of two FBI agents. One of the affidavits was signed by Myrtle Poor Bear, and stated she was Peltier’s girlfriend and witnessed the killings. However according to other witnesses she was not present at the scene, nor did she know Peltier. Poor Bear herself claimed she was threatened by the FBI and pressured into giving the statements, and she attempted to testify to this at Peltier’s trial; however the judge barred her testimony.
More info about the campaign to free Leonard Peltier here: https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1646748155510328/?type=3