INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ADVOCATES IN NEW MEXICO HAVE LONG HOPED THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD GRANT FREEDOM TO A MAN WHO HAS SPENT JUST ABOUT 50 YEARS IN PRISON. THEY ARGUE THAT HIS CONVICTION WAS UNJUST. PAYTON ...
EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary Free Leonard Peltier screens at the world-renowned International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on Friday – but it won’t be the same version that ...
To many supporters, Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner unjustly punished for his activism with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, he is a remorseless killer of two FBI agents in 1975, ...
Leonard Peltier, 80, sits in his bedroom on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota on June 18. A campaign poster for Deb Haaland’s 2026 New Mexico gubernatorial run hangs ...
It’s an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs ...
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 the Native ...
Leonard Peltier remains defiant in AP interview, maintaining innocence and vowing continued activism
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 sentenced to ...
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful for his supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota on Wednesday, a day after his release from a ...
SUMTERVILLE — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence ...
BELCOURT, N.D. — The first public words Leonard Peltier spoke to his people were simple and sincere: "Hello, everybody. I love all of you." The 80-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain Band of ...
Peltier, 80, left Coleman penitentiary in an SUV, according to a prison official. He didn’t stop to speak with reporters or the roughly two dozen supporters who gathered outside the gates to celebrate ...
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