Joe Biden Is Going To Have To Talk About Leonard Peltier
WASHINGTON ― Maxine was 4 years old when the bullet whizzed by her face. She remembers feeling a burning sensation on her forehead. And then the blood. Her uncle grabbed her, and they ran.“I have a scar,” she said, motioning to a faint line above her right eyebrow. “Just a lot of people hollering. That’s all I remember.”Maxine is in her 50s now. Her entire life has been shaped by that near-miss, and it’s not just because she could have died that day. It’s because of the person who has been in prison ever since that chaotic 1975 shootout between FBI agents and Native American rights activists on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. And that person — Leonard Peltier, a leader in the Indigenous rights movement — has been on Maxine’s mind every day since.“Every day. Every day we pray for h...