This Day in History – Feb. 6, 1976.  Forty-nine years ago today, February 6, 1976, Leonard Peltier was arrested in western ...

The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering ...

Leonard Peltier, 80, had been serving two life sentences ... Peltier and three others were arrested for fatally shooting the G-men. He was convicted in 1977. Around the time of his arrest, he ...

No one disputes that Peltier was shooting that June day ... while also feeling the clemency on a personal level. “Uncle Leonard is going to come back home,” he says. “And we’re going ...

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 man has been in prison for nearly 48 years. He is America’s longest serving political prisoner. He has not been pardoned ...

Peltier consistently maintained his innocence in the agents’ shooting deaths ... Peltier in his bids for clemency, told CNN. “Leonard has always wanted to live out the rest of his life ...

WASHINGTON — In one of his final acts while in office, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence for activist Leonard Peltier, who has already served 49 years in prison in the shooting ...

For the family of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, the news that President Biden had granted clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier shortly before leaving office came as a surprise."We were not ...