Peltier was born on September 12, 1944, [15] at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa near Belcourt, North Dakota.He was one of 13 children. [16] His parents divorced when he was four years old, [17] with Leonard and his sister Betty Ann living with their paternal grandparents Alex and Mary Dubois …

Jan 23, 2025 · 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.

Jan 23, 2025 · Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life sentences for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents, is shown in prison, in February 1986. After the American Indian Movement’s occupation of Wounded Knee in ...

3 days ago · Among Joe Biden’s final actions as his presidential term wound to a close was the commutation of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Indigenous activist who had been federally imprisoned for almost 50 years. Peltier was the longest imprisoned Native American political prisoner in U.S. history and one of the oldest people held in federal detention.

Leonard Peltier was an AIM leader and was asked by traditional people at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to support and protect the traditional people being targeted for violence. Mr. Peltier and a small group of young AIM members set up camp on a …

Jul 10, 2024 · Peltier, 79, is serving two consecutive life sentences for his role in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota that resulted in the deaths of two federal agents. To this...

Jan 21, 2025 · President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years.. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band ...

Jun 9, 2024 · Native American activist and federal prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has maintained his innocence in the murders of two FBI agents almost half a century ago, is due for a full parole hearing...

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...