Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Feb 1, 2025 · Leonard Peltier is an American Indian activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two FBI agents. His life sentence was commuted by Pres. Joe Biden in 2025.

Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots activist organization that began in Minneapolis in the 1960s to challenge police brutality and the oppression of Native...

The tribal chairman hired vigilantes, self titled as “GOONS,” to rid the reservation of American Indian Movement (AIM) activity and sentiment. More than 60 traditional tribal members and AIM members were murdered and scores more were assaulted.

The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Clyde Bellecourt, Dennis Banks, and George Mitchell—all Ojibwa Indians and graduates of that Indian finishing school, the Minnesota State Penitentiary.

Leonard Peltier is a Native American civil rights activist and leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), an historic political movement founded to promote Indigenous sovereignty and combat the oppression of Native American communities across the United States.

Jan 20, 2025 · Native leaders, journalists and those impacted by the 1975 shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that led to Leonard Peltier's conviction shared relief, joy and skepticism about former President Joe Biden's decision to grant him clemency

Leonard Peltier (inmate register number 89637-132), an Anishinabe-Lakota Native American, is a federal prisoner serving two consecutive life sentences at USP Coleman I Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida, for the murders of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in 1975.

In 1950, Leonard, at age six, and the Peltier family moved to Butte, Montana, where many other Indian fami-lies were living, to work in a copper mine. It was here that Peltier first encountered racial prejudice. "One day three white kids about my age started yelling, 'Hey, you dirty Indian, go home,' and started throwing rocks at me.

Jan 31, 2025 · Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which has grappled with police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans since the 1960s. The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge, the Oglala Lakota Nation’s reservation in South Dakota, leading to a 71-day standoff with ...