It’s not even past.’ It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American ...

There are Hollywood endings. And then there is the ending to the new film Free Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been imprisoned for well over 45 years when David France and Jesse Short Bull decided to ...

Regarding the Jan. 25 comments from your Editorial Board Roundtable on the recent presidential pardons and commutations (”An orgy of pardoning as Biden leaves office and Trump becomes president ...

For the family of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, the news that President Biden had granted clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier shortly before leaving office came as a surprise.

On January 19, 2025, former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, allowing the Native American activist to spend the rest of his days at home. The subject of ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — 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.

WASHINGTON ― With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, the ailing Native American rights activist whom the U.S. government put in prison ...

Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life sentences for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents, is shown in prison, in February 1986. After the American Indian Movement’s occupation of Wounded Knee in ...

AFTER 49 years and 11 months, Leonard Peltier will finally leave prison. Peltier had his life sentence commuted by former president Joe Biden on January 20, hours before Donald Trump was sworn in.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Indian Country and amnesty activists let out a resounding sigh of relief on former President Biden’s last day in office when it was announced that Native American activist Leonard ...

Former President Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, against the urgings of former FBI Director ...