In his last day in office, President Biden commuted the sentence of a Native American activist convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two ...
Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was ...
Native people from across the country gathered in Oglala to celebrate Leonard Peltier's clemency and pray for his safe return ...
The 11th hour clemency of Leonard Peltier has touched off a wave of joy, but it also brings pain to those who believe he ...
Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.
The Native American leader and longest-held political prisoner in the US will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted in one of Biden’s final acts as president, reports PEOPLE’ ...
Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom ...
On Jan. 20, then President Joe Biden commuted Peltier ... Wounded Knee occupation began in 1973 at Pine Ridge. During the occupation, tribal leaders hired vigilantes to "rid the reservation of ...
Peltier, a longtime American Indian Movement activist ... others against agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. From the outset, Peltier and his supporters ...
Longtime AIM activists and young people held their fists high into the air and war-whooped and trilled when those leading the ceremony mentioned Peltier ... of Wounded Knee, South Dakota ...