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.

“Free Leonard Peltier,” the opening night feature for the 44th Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival sold out three theaters at The Main Cinema, and for good reason. The powerful and timely ...

With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States) and David France (How To Survive a Plague) achieved their eponymous goal: Seven days before the world ...

Native American News Leonard Peltier remains defiant in AP interview, maintaining innocence and vowing continued activism Published: Mar. 05, 2025, 6:00 a.m.

Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave) BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge ...

The eyeglasses and watches Leonard Peltier brought home from prison sit on his nightstand in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave) ...

Leonard Peltier holds a copy of his commutation in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. Leonard Peltier stands for a portrait in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.

He should still be in prison.” Peltier was not pardoned; Biden said he was commuting Peltier’s sentence because of his age, his declining health, and the long period he had already been in prison.

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

Peltier was part of a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s that fought for Native American rights and tribal self-determination, sometimes occupying federal and tribal property.

BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.