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 ...
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 ...
Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.
a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years for the murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peltier, 80, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of ...
More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two ...
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years for the murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge ...
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Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian ...
Two people died in a vehicle crash on Pine Ridge Reservation, according to the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety. Wayne Cournoyer and Laila Spencer died in the crash on road BIA 2 ...