Sundance: David France and Jesse Short Bull's film tackles the 50-year story of activism surrounding the contentious conviction of the prominent American Indian Movement leader, whose sentence was ...

The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday.

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 convicted ...

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of ...

The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was ...

More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two ...

We speak with the NDN Collective’s Nick Tilsen, who just visited Leonard Peltier in prison after news of his sentence commutation, about fighting for Peltier’s freedom, his health and Trump ...

After hearing the news, Means said he had to take a moment to let Peltier’s clemency sink in. “All those years of marching, of being supportive of various activities for Leonard Peltier ...

Leonard Peltier, citizen of Turtle Mountain Band of ... already spent in prison,” said Biden in a statement Monday. MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding.

This Day in History – Feb. 6, 1976.  Forty-nine years ago today, February 6, 1976, Leonard Peltier was arrested in western ...

but with the President’s act of mercy Leonard can finally return to his reservation and live out his remaining days.” Peltier told NBC News in 2022 that he wasn't interested in a presidential ...