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Salina native mounts exhibit on Native oppression and art
Salina based artist Janine Martinez curates Native America Incarcerated at the Mid America All-Indian Center in Wichita. The show pairs 1800s Indian war era photographs with Leonard Peltier paintings. proceeds benefit the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Martinez links 1880s wars and 1960s 70s AIM struggles, arguing ongoing injustice in Native affairs. Peltier, imprisoned at Leavenworth since 1975 for two FBI agent murders, is highlighted as an artist.
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Salina
Janine Martinez
Leonard Peltier
U.S
Leavenworth
FBI
Martinez
Kansas Wesleyan University
Wichita State University
Mid America All
Peltier
Sever
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Lawrence
Shelly Berger
Mid America All-Indian Center
Wesleyan
Ellsworth Correctional Facility
American Indian Movement
AIM
Pine Ridge Reservation
South Dakota
Geniece Kirtlink
Kirtlink