“Free Leonard Peltier.” The film is showing at this year’s Seattle International FIlm Festival (SIFF), which The Observer was granted access to cover. The following is a Q&A with Short Bull, which was ...

"Free Leonard Peltier," a documentary about the Native ... a young woman plans a trip for the two girls to their childhood beach hometown — hoping to break the news in a familiar setting but ...

Leonard Peltier was released from a four-day hospital stay on Monday, July 16. The Anishinaabe elder’s diabetes has caused him to develop open wounds and tissue death on his toes and feet.

The jurors awarded the Silver Alexander to Free Leonard Peltier, the documentary about ... By reconstructing a fading childhood memory, it creates a poetic journey of recollection and loss.

With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota ... “The American Indian Movement was in my childhood, a very significant force, drove a lot of news coverage and animated a ...

To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States) and David France (How To Survive a Plague) achieved their eponymous goal: Seven days ...

With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs ... “The American Indian Movement was in my childhood, a very significant force, drove a lot of news coverage and animated a ...

PHOENIX — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was denied parole on Tuesday after serving nearly 50 years in federal prison for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, a case that ...

Indian Boarding Schools Indian Boarding Schools have a brutal history among North Dakota’s tribal communities, including in Leonard Peltier’s childhood. In Indian Country, those who attended boarding ...

Shortly after 9 a.m. last Tuesday, Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe ... seeing such an iconic figure return to the reservation where he spent much of his childhood. Having read multiple books ...

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 ...

Leonard Peltier, seen on the ground at the center ... Afterward, Sheila told us her brother shouted out the window, calling her by her childhood nickname as he passed. Little Crow Bellecourt ...