Documentarians worked quickly to change up the ending of 'Free Leonard Peltier' after Biden commuted Peltier's sentence.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier ...

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

But in June 1975, he and his mother came to visit Native American activists camping on Harry and Cecelia Jumping Bull’s land. Days later, he would learn those activists — including a Turtle Mountain ...

Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently ... It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often ...

the sound of prayer and song rang out across the plains at the Jumping Bull Ranch on Jan. 25 as Indigenous people celebrated the upcoming release of Anishinaabe activist Leonard Peltier.

And then there is the ending to the new film Free Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been imprisoned for well over 45 years when David France and Jesse Short Bull decided to make a documentary about him.

By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Late in Jesse Short Bull and David France’s new documentary Free Leonard Peltier, Native activist Nick Tilsen sings the praises of Leonard Peltier‘s ...

On January 19, 2025, former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, allowing the Native American activist to spend the rest of his days at home. The subject of ...

AFTER 49 years and 11 months, Leonard Peltier will finally leave prison ... In 1975, in the midst of the “reign of terror,” two FBI agents in unmarked cars stormed the Jumping Bull Ranch on the Pine ...

In this context, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams entered Jumping Bull Ranch on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ... President Biden’s decision to grant Leonard Peltier ...