Sundance: David France and Jesse Short Bull's film tackles the 50-year story of activism surrounding the contentious conviction of the prominent American Indian Movement leader, whose sentence was ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...
Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years, on Jan. 20.
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him ...
NDN Collective’s founder and chief executive officer Nick Tilsen, who has fought for Peltier’s clemency, is looking forward to Peltier going home, though he said officials have indicated Peltier may ...
WASHINGTON — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier's sentence ...
Peltier was acquitted of the charge in 1978. In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action is an ...
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.
Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
Documentarians worked quickly to change up the ending of 'Free Leonard Peltier' after Biden commuted Peltier's sentence.
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band ...