Waters, a Kiowa and Cherokee filmmaker who resides on the Muscogee Nation reservation, began her journey as a director in ...
I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this action and understanding what this means to Indian Country.” The fight for Peltier’s freedom is ...
A flaming reset, native movies and actors, group show offsART: Timely kinship in a delayed showArt certainly imitated life ...
Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom ...
For around two-thirds of its 111-minute running time, Free Leonard Peltier is a dry recitation of the details leading up to and surrounding the 1975 standoff and shootout at Pine Ridge Indian ...
Across New York, exhibitions highlighting the work of activists, from the mostly unknown to the iconic, offer hope, ...
The documentary selection at this year’s Sundance celebrates the work of multiple BIPOC filmmakers shedding light on untold narratives of both celebrated and unduly neglected figures from their ...
In “Free Leonard Peltier” the filmmakers dig into the event — a 1975 shootout on Pine Ridge Indian reservation that ... in the Western hemisphere so our art, our sports, our intellect ...
commuted the life sentence of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and of escaping from federal prison.
In the final hours of President Joe Biden’s term, he granted Leonard Peltier clemency through commutation, allowing him to serve his life sentence at home on the Turtle Mountain Indian ...