The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted ...

Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier, convicted in FBI killings. The Native American activist is in poor health and has long said he did not receive a fair trial and was not culpable in the ...

Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier was ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents, walked out of a federal prison in Florida on Tuesday to return to his tribal homelands in North Dakota.

FILE – Marchers carry a large painting of jailed American Indian Leonard Peltier during a march on the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Nov. 22, 2001.

Following a sacred pipe ceremony Thursday morning at a park in south Minneapolis, about 20 activists from Canada and the United States set off on a 1,100-mile walk to Washington, D.C., to seek ...

Leonard Peltier was grateful for supporters as they welcomed him to North Dakota after his release from prison where he was serving a life sentence. Skip to content. Main Navigation.

In December 2016, Leonard Peltier's youngest son, Wahacanka Paul Shields-Peltier, died on a trip to Washington, D.C., advocating for his father's release. He was 41.

"Free Leonard Peltier," the new documentary about the imprisoned Indigenous activist, whose life sentence was just commuted ...

A young girl in a ribbon skirt holds an American Indian Movement flag during the Free Leonard Peltier 79th Birthday Action in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 12, 2023.

SEATTLE (CN) — Imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier has sued Washington state for removing his paintings from a public exhibition on state property.. Peltier and his son Chauncey ...