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Poster has large white border around a smaller black border. In the cetner is a drawing with a light orange background and red outline drawings of a native man and ships. IN the lower right is a man with a white shirt and red bandana. The poster reads at the top, "From the Arawak Indians to Norma Jean Croy: 500 years of resistance 1492-1992." The bottom of the poster reads, "September 19, 1992: Benefit for Norma Jean Croy, Native American Lesbian Cultural/Politicial Prisoner and International Tribunal of Indingenous Peopls and Opressed nations organized by the American Indian Movement (AIM). Sponsored by: Gay American Indians, Norma Jean Croy Defence Committee, Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political prisoners, Lesbians and gays against intervention, Revolting Lesbians, The On Our Rag Collective and individual memebers of the Lesbian and Gay communities of the Bay Area." [Norma Jean Croy was a lesbian Shasta Indian who was tried in 1979 along with her brother (Patrick Hooty Croy) and several cousins. - She was charged with being an accomplice in the death of a police officer and convicted to a life sentence, but was released in 1997. -LMC]