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Actually, you don't have a clue what you're talking about, and a 2-minute Wikipedia skim doesn't change that.
Peltier was guilty as sin. He was a murdering thug who suddenly 'discovered' his 'calling' as a 'warrior' for the AIM, while fleeing a Federal warrant for attempted murder of a cop in Milwaukee, and looking for a place to hide.
He and a bunch of his buddies (all murdering thugs) found a place as hired 'muscle' for the AIM big-wigs at the Pine Ridge Reservation.
None of them had the tiniest genuine interest in, or knowledge of, their heritage or political history.
They liked to beat people up, and shoot them,... and were perfectly happy to shoot their own people, too, --not just interloping white folks.
He and his handful of pals were clearly responsible for the cold-blooded execution-style murder of the two FBI agents, and a handful of other folks who got in their way.
It is very likely that Peltier himself was the shooter of the two agents.
Writer and activist Peter Mathiessen (who seemed like a very decent guy in general, but conducted himself really despicably in this matter) wrote a famous book that created, and perpetuated, the absolute mythology of Peltier as some kind of Hero of Oppressed Native Americans.
It's a gigantic crock of s**t, but it's been taken up and propagated for three decades now by Oliver Stone, Robert Redford, and many others. (Again, I think these are mostly good guys on the whole, but their profound 'white guilt' has blinded them here, and they've done terrible harm because of it.)
If you care about the issues --or at least care about avoiding spreading lies on the internet-- you should educate yourself just a little.
At a minimum, read this brilliant debunking of Mathiessen's fairy tale by Scott Anderson (one of the very best investigative journalists on the planet):
http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/peltierbk07.htm'White guilt' is all fine and good; there's plenty of reason for it. And the treatment of Native Americans is one of the most disgraceful episodes in human history.
But that's no justification for stupidity or myth-making or spreading of lies and slander.
And it's sure as hell no reason to support a murdering thug, and pretend he's some kind of hero.
It's pathetic.
I don't know much about Billy Nelson: I assume someone gave him a copy of "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," and he went "Wow, Man, this Peltier dude got railroaded!"
He's probably well-intentioned, but unfortunately doesn't have a clue.
Like everyone else, he should try and know what the hell he's talking about before devoting himself to some cause that turns out to be a hundred percent *bulls**t.*
If anybody knows him, they should tell him that.
(BTW, you're even more clueless about Rubin Carter. But I don't have time to get into that right now.)