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

One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...

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

Leonard Peltier’s was it,” said Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the top Democrat on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, who has long championed a pardon for Mr. Peltier. “President Biden ...

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

In a statement, Biden said Peltier is to serve the remainder of his sentence at home and reiterated it’s not a pardon. What to knowabout Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier Minnesota tribal ...

With just minutes left as president, Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his entire immediate family—and gave clemency to prominent Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

"Mr. President, I urge you in the strongest terms possible: Do not pardon Leonard Peltier or cut his sentence short," Wray wrote. Biden's commutation announcement came just minutes before Trump's ...

The day that Rage Against the Machine has longed for since the start of their career has finally come as jailed indigenous activist Leonard Peltier had his sentence commuted by outgoing President ...

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