The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful to his family and supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota, one day after his release from a ...

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting ...

The subject of the unanimously praised 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Leonard Peltier was grateful for supporters as they welcomed him to North Dakota after his release from prison where he was serving a life sentence.

Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences stemming from a 1975 confrontation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.