Autobiography of Splitting the Sky: From Attica to Gustafsen Lake: Unmasking the Secrets of the Psycho-Sexual Energy and the Struggle for Original Peoples' Title
John Boncore Hill, Sandra Bruderer
2001
Spitting the Sky has lived the last fifty years in prison, part time and too long, but in the struggle always. A First American, his people have been here since millennia before the Conquistadors, Jamestown, the Mayflower, the slave trade, the Irish potato famine, the California gold rush, the Chinese Exclusion Act, or George Armstrong Custer. For half a century, he has painfully experienced at the cutting edge, the worst that immigrant waves, overwhelmingly caucasian for centuries, had to offer for those who stood in their way to all the riches of the western continent. Born among the poorest, street lived in the slums of Buffalo, "incorrigible," legally underage Attica inmate, in the biggest prison rebellion and most deadly police assault in U.S. history. Growing, learning, committed advocate and activist for the north American Indian from the Atlantic to the Pacific, emerging leader in a worldwide movement, observer, strategist, and chosen Sundance Chief at the time of the Gustafsen Lake confrontation in British Columbia in which Canada employed all the violence, deception, wiles, and corruption learned from five hundred years experience in crushing Indigenous peoples.
Identifier
L0290Call Number
E99 M8S685 2001Extent
653 pages : illustrations ; softcover 28 cmLanguage
ISBN
0968936504Edition
First EditionPlace of Publication
Chase, BCPublication Type
PrintPublisher
John Boncore HillCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright 2001 by John Boncore, Splitting the Sky and Sandra Bruderer.