(n.p.), (Society of the People Struggling to be Free), (1982). Apparently a later edition, printed by Common Wealth Printing. The first book by this Sioux poet/activist, who was a founder and National Chairman of the radical American Indian Movement during the 1970s -- a turbulent time of Native American political activism. Trudell became the spokesman for the Indians of All Tribes who occupied Alcatraz Island, which led to the founding of AIM. He was the Chair of AIM during the Wounded Knee siege and the Pine Ridge battle that left two FBI agents and one Indian youth dead and resulted in Leonard Peltier's conviction and incarceration for murder. Trudell's own family, his wife and three children, were killed in a fire set by an arsonist, which Trudell has long considered to have been an attempt to strike back at him for his radical activism and militancy, including his advocacy of the use of violence in pursuing claims of Native rights. He appeared in the documentary film about Peltier, Incident at Oglala, and was later cast as a charismatic Indian leader in the fictionalized film version of that story, Thunderheart. He is a musician as well as a poet and is also known as an eloquent speaker, both as a political leader and, more recently, as a guest lecturer. Fine in wrappers. [#028304] SOLD