Reading Time
4 hrs 53 mins
How long to read The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear?
The estimated word count of The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear is 73,160 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 53 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 8 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 43 mins.
| The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear - 73,160 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 8 hrs 8 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 53 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 43 mins |
- Authors
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Gerry Spence
More about The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear
73,160 words
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for The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear
7 hours and 52 minutes
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Description
The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means’s Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of compromising the reputation of AIM. This story reveals the struggle of the American Indian people in their attempt to survive in a white world, on land that was stolen from them. We live with Collins and see the beauty that was his, but that was lost over the course of his short lifetime. Today justice still struggles to be heard, not only in this case but many like it in the American Indian nations.