Power, Conflict, and Political Formation in Modern Asia
The paper is a historical analysis of Power, Conflict and the Making of Modern Asia. It looks at the various stages in the Indianization of the region. It also looks at the administration system that there was in the early 1920s and on with the emergence of Mandala systems as well as the development of the class system and the effect in the administration of the region.
Wounded Knee II, Leonard Peltier, and Native American Rights
Leonard Peltier has been in prison since 1979, after being convicted of the murder of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation four years earlier. He was an activist with the American Indian Movement (AIM) and at least on the Left has been regarded as a political prisoner, convicted for a crime that he probably did not commit and for which two of his other alleged accomplices were acquitted at a federal trial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This occurred before his conviction, but since he was not extradited from Canada in time for this trial the federal government tried him alone and obtained a sentence of life imprisonment. His next parole hearing will not be for thirteen years, and despite many years of protests and petitions on his behalf, no U.S. president has even shown much interest in granting him a pardon or clemency. Peltier has always stated that he did not shoot the FBI agents, although he admitted firing at them out of self-defense.