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An Evening with Ben Carnes on “Make No Bones About It.”

 

Ben Carnes is a Choctaw activist and writer who received the 1987 Oklahoma Human Rights Award for making a stand against forced hair-cutting policies while incarcerated. He was paroled in August 1988, and has been involved in organizing events and demonstrations on behalf of Nati…ve people and Native prisoners, including Leonard Peltier. He is currently immersed in several writing projects, including his biography that he hopes to have published before the end of 2010.

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