After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on ...
After spending nearly 50 years behind bars, American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier is finally free.
Some had clearly been used in previous protests — “Enough Is Enough: Free Leonard Peltier” — but there were also new ones, including a photo of Mr. Peltier with his Bureau of Prisons ...
As drummers sang, 80-year-old Chippewa and Lakota activist Leonard Peltier walked into a room full of nearly 500 supporters and family members during a welcome home celebration. Led by Native ...
“They wanted revenge, and they didn’t know who was responsible,” Peltier told the AP from the kitchen table of his new home. “And they said ‘Put the full weight of the American government on Leonard ...
Directors David France and Jesse Short Bull describe the Indigenous activist's ongoing fight for Native American rights after ...
MINOT — Leonard ... Peltier's appeals were denied by no fewer than 22 separate federal judges. He was denied parole many times over the course of his imprisonment, the latest denial coming ...
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful for his supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota on Wednesday, a day after his release from a ...
It's an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs ...
More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant ... as the beginning of a new phase of his activism.
You would have been hard-pressed to find a timelier film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival than “Free Leonard Peltier ... to “bring [Peltier’s story] to a whole new generation.” ...