LEONARD: Political Prisoner

Man Bites Dog Films

Louise

NOV 8, 202360 MIN

Description

We interview Native American author Louise Erdrich, who attended Leonard Peltier’s murder trial in her hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, in 1977. The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction analyzes where it all went wrong for Peltier, while sharing how the experience affected her concept of justice, a theme which became a hallmark of her literary career. Along the way, Louise reads from her correspondence with Leonard, revealing new details about their friendship, before laying out what his freedom would mean to the Indigenous community in North America and around the world. The Secret Is OUT The Secret Is Out tells the coming-out stories of LGBTQ people —... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show