Leonard Peltier was a leader of the . The government arrested him and charged him for the death of two FBI agents. notes that they arrested him “not because there was a good case against him, but because he was a radical AIM leader and a thorn in the government's flesh.” In other words, Leonard Peltier was (and still is, as of 2021) a political prisoner. His imprisonment, which Mary argues is unjust, is evidence of the U.S. government’s intentions to eliminate Native American activists.