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 sentenced to life in prison ...
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 ...
You would have been hard-pressed to find a timelier film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival than “Free Leonard Peltier,” directors Jesse Short Bull and David France’s documentary about ...
While “Free Leonard Peltier” uses interviews, archival footage and A.I.-generated reenactments to recreate the events that transpired that day at Wounded Knee, the film also situates Peltier ...
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 acclaimed new documentary “Free Leonard Peltier” will open the 44th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs April 2 through 13. Screenings are $17, or $11 for MSP Film ...
Leonard Peltier’s 2,000-mile journey home to Belcourt, N.D., began after he was released from the federal prison complex in Coleman, Fla., northwest of Orlando early Tuesday morning.