Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom President Biden pardoned.
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 ...
Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
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.
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
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his presidency.
The Native American activist says he did not receive a fair trial in the slayings of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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 ...
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after he spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975.
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.