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 ...

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 ...

A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa tribe whose imprisonment for many ... a Comanche-Blackfeet producer on Free Leonard Peltier, told Yahoo Entertainment. “This is something that ...

Days later, he would learn those activists — including a Turtle Mountain Chippewa man named Leonard Peltier — were involved in a shootout ... Star Comes Out, now the 54-year-old Oglala Sioux Tribe ...

In 1977, Peltier, a member of the Lakota tribe who was a prominent activist ... “It took nearly 50 years to acknowledge the injustice of Leonard Peltier’s conviction and continued ...

I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this action and understanding what this means to Indian Country.” Saving Peltier from the fate dying alone ...

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

Members of the Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli and other activists urged U.S. President Joe Biden to grant Native American activist Leonard Peltier clemency ... of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.