Materials and documents from the 1992 International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations. Held in San Francisco California from October 2-4, the Tribunal focused on challenging the 500th anniversary of the “discovery” of America by Christopher Columbus and discussing the massive, systematic violations of human rights and international law against people of color. Includes perspectives from New Afrikans, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans, Mexicans and white anti-imperialists. Also includes resources from the Tribunal and letters from attorney Marilyn Kalman to white anti-imperialist Political Prisoners.

The three aims of the tribunal were:

* to destroy the myth of the "European Discovery" of the Americas, and Columbus as the embodiment of the European Spirit of Adventure and of rugged individualism

* to provide a forum for a broader understanding of the right to self-determination, and to understand the history of the U.S.as the country which became the inheritor of the worst features of the European legacies of colonialism, genocide and racism

* to gain the immediate, unconditional release of the Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War from the different resistance movements.