One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...
Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom ...
"Free Leonard Peltier," the new documentary about the imprisoned Indigenous activist, whose life sentence was just commuted ...
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two ...
This Day in History – Feb. 6, 1976.  Forty-nine years ago today, February 6, 1976, Leonard Peltier was arrested in western ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
President Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in a case long disputed by Native American advocates. Why it ...
Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in December had urged Biden to act, calling Peltier’s imprisonment a “historic wrong” and a “miscarriage of justice.” “If there was ever a ...
“If there was ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s is it,” Schatz said on the Senate floor. “Let an old man die with his family.” While the pardon has been ...