An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

of racial capitalism and the proliferation of multinational corporations, and
arguing that the current system is unsustainable. Still, even though Ture was
an elder statesman, there was no match for his onscreen presence and bursts
of energy.
In November 2000, Nelson Mandela traveled to Minneapolis to accept
an award for his struggle for human rights. 74 Clyde Bellecourt was there,
and perhaps believing that he could also seek solidarity from South
Africans, he went up to Mandela and shook his hand. He asked him to
support the pardon of Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), who
had been imprisoned since 1977, convicted of murdering two FBI agents,
though the trial and sentence are deemed unjust by activists around the
world who have been seeking his pardon. 75 It was a symbolically powerful
moment, the sight of these two people shake hands, but nothing came of it.
The Black and Red Power generation did not eradicate oppression and
implement the revolution as they had hoped. They did not seize the power
they wanted. However, at the award ceremony in Libya, some twenty years
after the rise of Black Power and Red Power, these leaders demonstrated a
revolutionary love and commitment to international struggle that must
continue today.