The famed Native American activist and political prisoner spoke with the New York Daily News about his time in jail and hope for the future. Leonard Peltier, the famed Native American activist who has spent four decades in prison, suggested in an interview published...
The 71-year-old AIM member, who many believe has been unfairly jailed for more than 40 years, petitioned the president for a pardon in March. In 1977, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was put behind bars, where he has remained in federal custody for 40 years,...
…Peltier insists he didn’t fire the fatal shots that put him behind bars — the shots that felled FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a June 26, 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. “I was at Pine Ridge that day. I did...
The 71-year-old has lived behind barbed wire and concrete walls for more than half of his life, cemented in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As he wages a four-decade legal battle in a case clouded with conflicting testimony, political influence and...
[gview file=”http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf” height=”800px” width=”500px” save=”0″] What YOU Can Do to Help Ask President Obama to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. Call President...
