A review by dlberglund
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier

4.0

It is hard to understand the kind of fortitude, optimism, and strength that one would have to have to live out two life sentences for a crime you assert you did not commit. When Peltier wrote this book, he had already served 23 years in prison. That was TWENTY YEARS AGO. He was still, at that time, hopeful that a president would commute his sentence, grant him clemency or time served or in some way allow him to not actually die in jail for a crime based on extremely flimsy evidence. It astounds me that he is still there, in a different federal prison, watching the continued fight for Native land and water rights go on without him. This was a good read that, unfortunately, left me feeling more pessimistic than when I started.