Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom ...
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him ...
“They treated Leonard Peltier differently ... Wray dismissed Peltier’s claims of an unfair trial as meritless and accused his sympathizers of “wrongly promot[ing] him as a standard-bearer ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.
“Leonard has always wanted to live ... but no one actually saw the killings. Supporters of Peltier have said the evidence produced at trial was unreliable, while the FBI has categorically ...
This is something that we always prepared for," producer Jhane Myers told Yahoo Entertainment about the documentary's contingency plan.
Cody, Wyoming, filmmaker Preston Randolph is a producer of the documentary “Free Leonard Peltier,” which premiered at the ...
One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...
"President Biden was right to commute the life sentence of Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier given the serious human rights concerns about the fairness of his trial," Amnesty ...
The Native American activist says he did not receive a fair trial in the slayings of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Leonard Peltier spent nearly 50 years in federal prison ... arguing that he was unjustly convicted after an unfair trial. But former and current F.B.I. officials, including Christopher Wray ...