MPR’s Marvin Granger and author/journalist Gerald Vizenor discuss the case of Thomas Whitehawk, and the civil right issues of Native Americans in the U.S. court system.
Granger has spent two years looking into the case of Thomas James Whitehawk, an American Indian from South Dakota who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Vizenor is a Native American writer and member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation.
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