In 1977, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents who died in a shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier, now 77 ...
Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist, and elder of Lakota and Dakota descent, has endured nearly five decades of unjust imprisonment for a crime he has always maintained he did ...
Meanwhile, ailing 80-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier remains detained in a federal prison, his residence for nearly a half-century. He’s ripe for clemency. Peltier is serving ...
A group of over 120 elected current and former tribal leaders from across the United States are calling on President Joe Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, a longstanding political ...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to use his final days in office to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist who has ...
Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, led 33 members of Congress on Friday in a letter calling on President Biden to pardon Leonard Peltier — a Native American ...
WASHINGTON ― Dozens of U.S. senators and members of Congress wrote to President Joe Biden on Thursday “with renewed urgency” in their calls on him to release Native American rights activist Leonard ...