Description
Wally Feather, a Lakota activist affiliated with the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) attended a H-Block Rally at Belfast City Hall in early August 1981, during a particularly devastating period of the 1981 hunger strikes, with the death of four hunger strikers within a three week period. According to Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, this visit was traumatic for Feather and he arrived at the IITC from Northern Ireland “rather traumatised and carrying in his leg a wound from a rubber bullet, belying its benign name.”
Bibliographic sources
Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, “Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005),103.