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RAPID CITY, S.D.? The former wife of AIM co-founder Dennis Banks told jurors Wednesday that she was with Anna Mae Aquash and others when Leonard Peltier bragged about killing two FBI agents in 1975.
a Democratic politician via Kentucky. And among the names granted clemency Monday was longtime jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who many say was America's "longest-serving ...
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is set to return home after spending nearly 50 years behind bars for the 1975 deaths of two FBI agents. President Biden commuted his sentence Monday, following ...
It’s a busy weekend for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. The Lawrence-based team is combing 30,000 pages of recently released FBI documents relating to the imprisoned American Indian’s case.
More than 30 members of Congress are calling on President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, a Lakota tribe member who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975. “As Members of ...
Protesters carry a large painting of jailed indigenous activist Leonard Peltier during a Plymouth, Mass., march. (Steven Senne/Associated Press) The FBI had urged former President Joe Biden not to ...
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who spent half a century in prison after being convicted of killing two FBI agents, was released from a federal penitentiary in Florida on Tuesday.
A parole hearing was held Monday for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota.
He was contacted by Deb Haaland after Leonard Peltier was released from prison about doing a photo shoot with him. This was no easy task. “I had been sending him my photo books when he was in ...
Gunfire erupted - a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest manhunt in FBI history, three men were apprehended - only one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted of murder and ...