Tribal leaders in Minnesota mourn the loss of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who many consider an advocate for Indian Country.

New in Milwaukee movie theaters May 2: Marvel's "Thunderbolts*," "The Surfer," "Rosario," the final week of the Milwaukee Film Festival and more ...

Iconic Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a federal penitentiary in Florida on February 18, 2025, after serving 49 years behind bars. Now 80 years old and in poor health, he ...

Graciela Mochkofsky writes on Pope Francis, born Jorge Bergoglio, his legacy in Argentina, and the nuances of his Peronism and his shifting politics.

Marty Garbus is a trial attorney who has represented, among others, Nelson Mandela, Leonard Peltier, Daniel Ellsberg, Lenny Bruce, Elie Wiesel, Cesar Chavez and Vaclav Havel. Garbus is also a member ...

"Free Leonard Peltier": This documentary about the Native American activist who spent 50 years in prison explores the case and the irregularities of the trial that landed him there.

I took double of everything in case of a problem.” The promise was Leonard would sit for two hours but ended up doing four. Balkowitsch made seven plates, six for museums, one plate for Peltier and ...

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.

“I was so focused, but I thought I should finally try to get a portrait of us,” said Balkowitsch. “I was standing above Leonard, and he was in his chair. I quickly thought to myself, ‘I can't stand ...

A month ago, Haaland called Balkowitsch with a suggestion: take a portrait of Leonard Peltier. The Belcourt, North Dakota, native and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa had his prison ...

BELCOURT, N.D. (KVRR) – Leonard Peltier is on home confinement here in North Dakota, But he’s still headed to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. That’s after a phot ...

A 49-year survivor of incarceration within the United States prison system, Leonard Peltier (Ojibwe/Lakota), 80, is the most iconic Native American elder in Indian Country. Peltier arrived home at the ...