Across New York, exhibitions highlighting the work of activists, from the mostly unknown to the iconic, offer hope, ...
A flaming reset, native movies and actors, group show offsART: Timely kinship in a delayed showArt certainly imitated life ...
For around two-thirds of its 111-minute running time, Free Leonard Peltier is a dry recitation of the details leading up to and surrounding the 1975 standoff and shootout at Pine Ridge Indian ...
And then there is the ending to the new film Free Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been imprisoned ... in a shootout at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, even as he maintained ...
Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson reaffirming William Faulkner’s warning: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ It’s ...
Editor's note: Among his final actions in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive grant of clemency Jan. 19 commuting Leonard ... in 1984. Peltier, a longtime American Indian Movement ...
It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist ...
I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this action and understanding what this means to Indian Country.” The fight for Peltier’s freedom is ...
But some participants were also protesting the 1977 conviction of Native American activist Leonard Peltier on murder charges ... shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.