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**All Charges Dropped Against Nick Tilsen in Politically Charged Case**

**>** “Today I am free! My freedom wasn’t granted by a judge, a jury, or the settler colonial court system. My freedom was won by the people, the movement, and the ancestors. We organized, prayed, wrote […]

NDN Collective founder’s trial ends with hung jury, judge declares mistrial - ICT The State of South Dakota has a few weeks to decide whether to dismiss the charges or retry the case

RAPID CITY, SD – A 3 day trial deciding if NDN Collective founder and CEO Nicholas Tilsen had committed aggravated assault against a cop in 2022 resulted in a mistrial. #NDNcollective #NickTilsen #SouthDakota #indigenousrights 👍👍✊🏽🪶
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Drop the Charges Against Nick Tilsen In 2023, Nick Tilsen pulled over to conduct a routine cop watch where a Native unhoused relative was being stopped by Rapid City Police (RCPD) in Rapid City, South Dakota. A year later from that cop...

Another day, another Native getting railroaded.
Please read and sign. #NickTilsen
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“Finally Free!”: Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Behind Bars We speak with NDN Collective founder and CEO Nick Tilsen, who was with Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier as he was released from a federal prison in Florida Monday after nearly half a century behind...

" #NickTilsen: And that uprising created pride...and it was that very foundation that became the foundation that freed Leonard Peltier."

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“Finally Free!”: Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Behind Bars We speak with NDN Collective founder and CEO Nick Tilsen, who was with Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier as he was released from a federal prison in Florida Monday after nearly half a century behind...

" #NickTilsen: ..at that time in history, when Leonard and the #AmericanIndianMovement were rising up, they were rising up at a time in which our ceremonies were outlawed, our languages were outlawed. They were trying to terminate the tribes."

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“Finally Free!”: Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Behind Bars We speak with NDN Collective founder and CEO Nick Tilsen, who was with Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier as he was released from a federal prison in Florida Monday after nearly half a century behind...

" #NickTilsen: Leonard Peltier walked out of the front doors of Coleman prison energetic and completely dignified. When he walked out, he shook the hands of all the corrections officers, and all of them were happy to see him go."