Leonard Peltier - Wikipedia
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment.
Biden commutes life sentence of Leonard Peltier, Native American ...
2 days ago · Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president Monday, commuted the life sentence of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine ...
Leonard Peltier: Biden commutes sentence of Indigenous activist …
1 day ago · In the 1970s, Peltier was a leader of the American Indian Movement, which took over the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, the Associated Press reported.
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier ...
2 days ago · Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which has grappled with police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans since the 1960s. The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge — the Oglala Lakota Nation’s reservation in South Dakota — leading to a 71-day standoff ...
Leonard Peltier | Trial, Facts, Imprisonment, & Commutation
1 day ago · Leonard Peltier is an American Indian activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two FBI agents. His life sentence was commuted by Pres. Joe Biden in 2025.
Biden frees Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, after almost 50 …
1 day ago · In his final moments as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years for his conviction for ...
Biden grants activist Leonard Peltier clemency to finish life …
1 day ago · An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis that ...
Leonard Peltier, imprisoned Native American activist, has new …
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly half a century for the murders of two FBI agents he has always maintained he didn't commit, is hopeful he'll...
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier ...
1 day ago · FILE - American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., April 29, 1999. (Joe Ledford/The Kansas City Star via AP, File)
American Indian Movement | International Leonard Peltier …
The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Clyde Bellecourt, Dennis Banks, and George Mitchell—all Ojibwa Indians and graduates of that Indian finishing school, the Minnesota State Penitentiary.
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