Make an Impression! Utilize this banner space to reach thousands of potential clients. Contact us for more information: market   World-wide support for Peltier REVIEW By Paul Barnsley Windspeaker Staff Writer LEAVENWORTH, Kansas Federal officials in Canada and the United States continue to resist a varied and growing wave of support for a review of the Leonard Peltier case. Peltier has been incarcerated for the past 23 years. He currently resides in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was convicted of killing two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during an exchange of gunfire between American Indian Movement members and the FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota in 1975. He remains in prison and has repeatedly been denied parole even though it has long been acknowledged by officials in both countries that he was wrongfully extradited to the United States from Canada. Statements by federal prosecutors in the United States also suggest he was also wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Press requests for interviews with Peltier are being refused by prison officials, something his supporters see as another indication that he is a political prisoner. Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, a book by Peltier, will be released in June. His editor, Harvey Arden, visited Peltier on April 17 during a prison powwow for Native inmates. He says Peltier is in great pain as a result of a poorly treated medical condition, and prison authorities will not allow him to leave the facility to get proper treatment. "My life is an extended agony," Peltier wrote. "I feel like I've lived a hundred lifetimes in prison, already. But I'm prepared to live thousands more on behalf of my people. If my imprisonment does nothing more than educate an unknowing and uncaring public about the terrible conditions Indian people continue to endure, then my suffering has had - and continues to have - a purpose. My people's struggle to survive inspires my own struggle to survive. Each of us must be a survivor." Peltier writes that he still has some hope of tasting freedom once again. "In late 1993, and again in 1998, the U.S. Parole Commission rejected my appeal for parole, telling me to apply again in the year 2008. The simple act of changing my "consecutive" life sentences to "concurrent" life sentences - a change of one word - would give me my freedom and return to me at least a part of my life, if only my old age. I pray the parole commission will make that one-word change."