Wild Justice

Wild Justice
Author: Michael Lieder
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: History
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The untold story of how the Chiricahua Apache tribe won a $22 million settlement against the U.S. government that had imprisoned tribal members for 23 years. In 1947 President Truman established the Indian Claims Commission. WILD JUSTICE is a history of that extraordinary tribunal and the efforts of Native American tribes to obtain restitution from it.