Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom President Biden pardoned.
More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two FBI agents and a Native man dead
From Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to the U.S. penitentiary in central Florida ... shootout between members of the American Indian Movement and two FBI agents. “I’m so happy. I never really thought they’d let him out.” Long Visitor’s great ...
With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his presidency.
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist. Peltier was represented by Kevin Sharp of Nashville.
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 given a head's up as a family,
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after ...
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been ... agents during a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The activist was convicted of first-degree murder ...
Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was commuted by Joe Biden.
Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has joined several others in the state in issuing free tribal IDs for eligible citizens following continues concerns of racial profiling against Native people nationwide.