MINOT — Leonard Peltier, convicted decades ago for the murder of two federal law enforcement agents, has been released from prison and welcomed back home, with much jubilation, by his friends ...

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement. Many in ...

American Indian activist Leonard Peltier addresses lively crowd after prison release “It's been 49 years straight in prison for something I didn't do,” Leonard Peltier said, close to tears.

It's an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota ...

While “Free Leonard Peltier” uses interviews, archival footage and A.I.-generated reenactments to recreate the events that transpired that day at Wounded Knee, the film also situates Peltier ...

'Free Leonard Peltier' directors David France and Jesse Short Bull on Native American icon's 50 year trail to freedom. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD.

Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: AP/Mark Vancleave By The Associated Press Updated February 28, 2025 2:23 pm ...

Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.

More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents.

“Free Leonard Peltier,” which plays this week in the international competition at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, is a decades-spanning portrait of an activist who, as a leading member ...

Bismarck-based photographer Shane Balkowitsch has been making portraits of Indigenous people using the historic wet plate method that would have been used about 150 years ago for similar posed photos.

Leonard Peltier holds a copy of his commutation in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave) AP The FBI says Peltier shot the agents at close range.