A nearly 50-year-long legal saga is coming to an end after President Biden commuted the life prison sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier earlier this week. A jury found Peltier guilty ...

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

Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.

Leonard Peltier, who was serving a life sentence ... of nonviolent drug offenses and several other high-profile cases. Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, was ...

Why did that activist (and his father and grandfather) consider Peltier's case to be a defining cause in his life? "Free Leonard Peltier" ultimately comes around to more or less answering those, but ...

“If there was ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s is it,” Schatz said on the Senate floor. “Let an old man die with his family.” While the pardon has been hailed by many ...

LEONARD PELTIER WAS CONVICTED FOR THE AGENT’S DEATH AND SENTENCED FOR TWO LIFE TERMS FOR MURDER. LATER, THE CONVICTIONS WERE REDUCED TO AIDING AND ABETTING. HIS CASE DRAWING ATTENTION FROM ...

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 ...

Our KELOLAND News archives retrace the winding trail of Peltier’s case, from the courtroom and beyond. Leonard Peltier’s conviction of murdering two FBI agents in an ambush on the Pine Ridge ...

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.

Late in Jesse Short Bull and David France’s new documentary Free Leonard Peltier, Native activist Nick Tilsen sings the praises of Leonard Peltier’s sense of humor but expresses a note of concern.

“If there was ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s is it,” Schatz said on the Senate floor. “Let an old man die with his family.” While the pardon has been ...