Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.

On January 19, 2025, former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier ... clung to long-held Lakota tribe customs. In 1975, Peltier joined an envoy of AIM activists ...

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 ...

"To be part of this and a part of Leonard's freedom ... injustice," said Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out in a statement on Monday. Since Peltier's imprisonment began, Indigenous ...

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.

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

Peltier’s tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa ... “I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family,” she added. “I applaud President Biden for this action and ...

Leonard has denied culpability in the killings ... he will live in a small house built by the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe. Peltier has had illnesses to deal with, he said.

Peltier's tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa ... so many Native Americans for so many decades. I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for ...