Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom President Biden pardoned.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order relating to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina at the White House on Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington.
Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
From Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to the U.S. penitentiary in central Florida ... shootout between members of the American Indian Movement and two FBI agents. “I’m so happy. I never really thought they’d let him out.” Long Visitor’s great ...
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota.
More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two FBI agents and a Native man dead
With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
Peltier, an activist affiliated with the American Indian Movement (AIM), was one of several people involved in a firefight in 1975 that killed FBI agents Ronald Arthur Williams and Jack Ross Coler on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Peltier is 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.
For the family of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, the news that President Biden had granted clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier shortly before leaving office came as a surprise."We were not given a head's up as a family,
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been ... agents during a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The activist was convicted of first-degree murder ...
Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was commuted by Joe Biden.