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American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent's True Story about Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement...
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by Joseph H. Trimbach and John M. Trimbach
Sales Rank: 25653
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List Price: $28.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 652 pages
Published by: Outskirts Press December 12, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0979585503
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979585500
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 2 pounds
Book Description
The book the AIM leadership does not want you to read!
For the first time, the true History of AIM is revealed through the eyes of an FBI Agent who was there. And for the first time, the AIM leadership's dirty little secrets are exposed, unlike in any other History book. In fact, this book exposes the History books. It is time to set the record straight for the benefit of all Native Americans.
"Although much has been written about the tragic events at Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge, Joe Trimbach's book appears to be the first definitive report of the courageous efforts of federal Law enforcement (FBI, U.S. Marshals and BIA), often at great personal risk, to restore order to the Native Americans living in the midst of violence and intimidation. Mafia is well documented and presents an important contribution to our understanding of what actually happened."
-Judge William H. Webster, former Director, FBI,
former Director, CIA
"As a longtime journalist, author, and Oglala Lakota born, raised and educated on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, I have been appalled at the many books, movies, and documentaries about Wounded Knee II and about Leonard Peltier that are so filled with myths, misconceptions and outright lies. Trimbach takes apart Matthiessen's In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, movies like Thunderheart, Lakota Woman, and A Tattoo on My Heart - The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973, and exposes them for the frauds that they are. It is refreshing to finally hear the other side of the story."
-Tim Giago, former editor and publisher of Indian Country Today,
author and nationally syndicated columnist
"A gripping, no-holds barred account of what really happened at Wounded Knee-one of the bloodiest and most controversial chapters in the long proud History of the FBI. Joe Trimbach is a myth-breaker; his carefully compiled chronology is a must-read for all Americans who seek truth behind the headlines."
-Oliver North, Lt Col USMC (Ret.)
"It's an ugly dark feeling realizing you were lied to. For many years I supported clemency for Leonard Peltier, and towed the line for leadership of the American Indian Movement. The facts, the anger, and the blame Mafia puts on AIM, on its sympathizers, and even on the institution Trimbach once worked for, is from a law-enforcement perspective, and is revealing. See clearly through the foggy AIM alibis, the false cry of civil rights. From a tiny element of Native America we once looked up to, the people's Movement was hijacked by false warriors, murderers, and liars. Whether you support the FBI or thought of it as your enemy, Mafia is a must-read for understanding the other side of the DMZ, established at Wounded Knee '73."
-Paul DeMain (Oneida-Ojibwe), Editor,
News From Indian Country
Reader Reviews
Many books written about Wounded Knee (1973), the murders of two FBI agents (1976) and the judicial trials afterwards rely on established myths promoted and promulgated by those with an agenda to confuse, rewrite history and obfuscate the judicial process. American Indian Mafia is not one of those books! Joseph Trimbach sets the records straight by someone who was there and walked the walk. He is not a pseudo intellectual hell bent on making a name for himself and perpetrating more myths about the struggles of the Native Americans living the perennial struggle for self actualization caught between liars and romantics trying to re-write history and the paternalistic American government (not the FBI) who have failed the Native American Indians miserably. This book shines a light on actual events and the historical record with great dispassion relying on the facts as witnessed. It is an exciting and refreshing read pointing out the role of the BIA, The FBI and the US Marshall's who were there in the trenches and then ridiculed by defense attorneys, the media and federal judges. It is a lesson in the realities of how our judicial system can go awry because of myths created by all of the above as well as misguided and lying authors with a very selfish and discredited agenda. American Indian Mafia is well written, documented and an indictment of previous authors, the Media and misguided fans of lies and romantic visions of the Pine Ridge incidents; lies about Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement (AIM). If you read this book you will bear witness how this organization, the AIM, was nothing more than a bunch of thugs with left leaning supporters in various occupations including prominent people in the Hollywood entertainment field. It is always too easy for the conspiratorialists to find blame with the FBI and you will see how their attorney's et al, use this tactic to perpetrate myths and lies and freedom for the clearly guilty. This was a great book and worthy of being placed into every college syllabus dealing with the struggles of Native Americans.
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