The Silver Alexander in the International Competition went to “Free Leonard Peltier,” directed by Jesse Short Bull ... The ...
To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States) and David France (How To Survive a Plague) achieved their eponymous goal: Seven days ...
BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains ... rights and tribal self-determination ...
Peltier said there were moments in the last few years where he began to lose hope that he would ever see freedom. His denial of parole in July was another crushing blow. “They gave me the ...
The FBI and Native American activists: A volatile mix Peltier was part of a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s that fought for Native American rights and tribal self-determination, sometimes ...
BELCOURT, N.D. — (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. Despite being convicted and ...