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Incident at Oglala

This classic documentary treats the political awakening of Native Americans in the 1970s by dissecting the unjust arrest and imprisonment of several Amerindians after a shootout in the reservation village of Oglala, Dakota. You can follow the ins and outs of the evidence, trial, and re-trials, which make their injustice a lot clearer now, in retrospect. Or you can use the interviews and cross-accusations among themselves to see what the world looks like from the dirt roads of the rez.

-- KK

Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
Directed by Michael Apted
1992, 90 min.
$13 DVD

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Posted on January 10, 2003 at 10:35 AM