Native activist Leonard Peltier to serve remainder of sentence at …
5 days ago · President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota. Peltier, 80, is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.
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.
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier ...
5 days ago · Senator Richard Marcellais, D-Belcourt, former chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, welcomed the news of a commutation for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, 80, in the Senate chamber in the North Dakota State Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
Native activist Leonard Peltier to serve remainder of sentence at …
4 days ago · A prayer for Leonard Peltier is sung to a drumbeat on June 20, 2024, outside the federal courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota. Demonstrators were calling for the release of Peltier, who was convicted ...
Biden commutes Leonard Peltier, sending him home to North Dakota …
3 days ago · On his final day in office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Turtle Mountain Chippewa man convicted of killing two FBI agents. Many Indigenous communities around the state and nation are celebrating the decision. ... North Dakota, next month to carry out his life sentence on home confinement after being imprisoned ...
Biden commutes sentence of Peltier, convicted of killing FBI …
5 days ago · President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who was serving life in prison after being convicted of killing two FBI agents 50 years ago on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier, 80, is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.
Human rights expert welcomes clemency for Indigenous activist Leonard …
1 day ago · The UN independent expert on the rights of Indigenous Peoples on Thursday welcomed the decision by outgoing US President Joe Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous leader who has spent nearly 50 years in prison under controversial circumstances.
Leonard Peltier: Biden commutes sentence of Indigenous activist …
5 days ago · In a first-person account published by Native News Online, Peltier said he was forcibly taken from his grandmother to a North Dakota boarding school when he was 9 years old. He wrote the staff ...
Leonard Peltier | Trial, Facts, Imprisonment, & Commutation
3 days ago · Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.) is an American Indian (mostly Ojibwa) activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents.
Leonard Peltier to leave prison after 50 years as Biden grants ...
5 days ago · President Joe Biden announced Jan. 20 he will commute Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to home confinement, marking a major victory for tribal nations and advocates who have long fought for the Native American activist’s release. ... spent three years at the Wahpeton Indian School in North Dakota as a child — a story he shared with Native ...