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12-06-2024
LAKOTA: WE ARE A NATION
An Indigenous Voice from the Black Hills - By Charmaine Whiteface
11-06-2024
Window Rock, New York, Innsbruck
Spring travel writings by Claus Biegert
02-05-2024
Nobody does this work alone
The Nuclear-Free Future Awards endeavor to ensure no-one has to
27-12-2023
On the presentation of the Nuclear-Free Future Award 2023 in New York City
Uranium: The stuff of deterrence is not called by its name
01-09-2023
Tony Hillerman – a Case of Cultural Appreciation
A classic comes back: Tony Hillerman's Navajo crime novels published by the Swiss Unionsverlag. A white author writing about people on an Indian reservation - is that still acceptable today? In response, a look at the online offerings of the most successful series: DARK WINDS has been running in the U.S. since June, and the series will be launched in German as WIND DES BÖSEN on September 12. The series is based on the novels by Tony Hillerman. Never before has a US film production had such a strong line-up of indigenous participants. Claus Biegert on Tony Hillerman.
20-02-2023
WOUNDED KNEE 1973 REMEMBERED
Fifty years ago a protest for civil rights on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota sparked a clash between the American Indian Movement and U.S. Army on the site of a massacre that ended the Indian Wars.
07-11-2022
City of Geneva demands freedom for Leonard Peltier
Jean Roach, a Lakota woman who has been traveling in Europe since September, has successes to show for her journey.
23-06-2022
Indigenous arguments on the crisis of the earth
The Museé d'Ethnografie de Genève (MEG) is presenting its exhibition entitled "Environmental Injustice - Indigenous Alternatives" until the end of August. The climate catastrophe hits small, non-industrialized peoples particularly hard, as they are directly dependent on an intact environment. They are the ones who must own our ear.
25-01-2022
I´M IN HELL – LEONARD PELTIER PLEADS FOR HELP
The Internet newspaper Huffington Post published a call for help from political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has been innocently imprisoned for 45 years.
23-01-2022
Jimmie Durham: A Gatherer of Worlds
He had several lives, and traveled the world as a gatherer.
28-11-2021
SENSATION IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM: I was wrong, US State Attorney says about convicting Peltier
14-11-2021
Voices from the Earth: Disappointed!
26-08-2021
President of the European Parliament Sassoli asks President Biden for clemency for Leonard Peltier
28-06-2021
INTERVIEW WITH JUDGE KEVIN SHARP – IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE – THE STORY OF LEONARD PELTIER
24-06-2021
FREE Peltier – we need your help!
23-06-2021
I AM THE INDIAN VOICE
23-06-2021
THE HERD IS THE HEART
16-06-2021
CROW DOG: A MEDICINEMAN CHANGES WORLDS
09-06-2021
IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE
I AM THE INDIAN VOICE

Leonard Peltier, Leavenworth, Kansas 1997
Director: Claus Biegert, 25 min, production: biegertfilm 2017
My second visit with Leonard Peltier in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, was in 2000, a year after the publication of his book “Prison Writings: My Life is my Sundance.” I was accompanied by photographer Dick Bancroft, who had seen him three times in the years before. In my luggage I had a video camera and Leonard’s book.
The officer at the baggage check had no objection to the book. At least he said later that this book was not allowed, but he overlooked it. I had Leonard read his poems; they became the backbone of this film. I still collected voices from people close to him, including Nilak Butler and Ramsey Clark. Nilak lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975, near the scene of the shooting; Ramsey Clark, once U.S. attorney general, was long one of Peltier’s lawyers. The film was self-funded, with clips used by DemocracyNow! and Amnesty International.