
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, October 9, 1994                   TAG: 9410100068
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CRYSTAL CHAPPELL
DATELINE: LEXINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

'FREE PELTIER' EFFORT IS W&L TOPIC

Cherokee chief Michael Raven Horse will speak at Washington and Lee University on Wednesday about the national effort to free imprisoned American Indian leader Leonard Peltier.

Raven Horse, of Elon in Amherst County, will discuss the "Free Leonard Peltier" campaign. The speech is titled "Leonard Peltier: Reflections on Five Centuries of Injustice Towards Native Peoples."

Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, was convicted in the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975. Peltier supporters say he was framed by the government and is being held as a political prisoner.

The event, co-sponsored by the Greens Party, USA, the Association for Human Awareness! and the SEDAR Foundation, will be held at 7 p.m. at Newcomb Hall. "Incident at Oglala," a documentary about Peltier's case, produced by Robert Redford, will be shown at 6 p.m. For information, call Harmony at 467-8441.

by CNB