Free Leonard Peltier' directors David France and Jesse Short Bull on Native American icon's 50 year trail to freedom.

After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on ...

Directors David France and Jesse Short Bull describe the Indigenous activist's ongoing fight for Native American rights after ...

The AR-15 rifle recovered from a car carrying Peltier and several American Indian Movement members had a different firing pin than the rifle used to kill agents Jack Coler and Ron ...

As drummers sang, 80-year-old Chippewa and Lakota activist Leonard Peltier ... of the hard work securing Peltier’s release, he said, was worth it when he saw him walk out of Coleman Federal ...

After nearly 50 years in prison, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released ... and the Longest Walk spiritual march from Alcatraz to Washington, D.C., in 1978 to support tribal ...

BELCOURT, N.D. – After 49 years of imprisonment, Chippewa activist Leonard Peltier raised ... he called the decision to grant Peltier clemency an act of justice for all Native people.

Peltier fled to Canada before his 1977 trial. He was eventually extradited back to the United States, found guilty and given two life sentences. “Leonard Peltier’s release is the right thing ...

Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released Tuesday morning from a federal prison in Florida ...

MINOT — Leonard ... Reservation. Peltier maintains his innocence. His supporters say he was wrongly convicted. His release is portrayed by them as a long-delayed bit of justice.

By Shaila Dewan Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist ... Shaila Dewan covers criminal justice — policing, courts and prisons — across the country. She has been a journalist ...