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

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 ...

Leonard Peltier recently turned 80 years old ... The federal government has been repeatedly accused of failing to prove its case against Peltier. The former U.S. Attorney James Reynolds, who ...

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 ...

"Free Leonard Peltier," the new documentary about the imprisoned Indigenous activist, whose life sentence was just commuted to house imprisonment by President Joe Biden days before this film's ...

More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two ...

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 ...

With one week left in office, the president could end his term with an act of mercy by granting clemency to the ailing Native American rights activist.