Leonard Peltier is a Native American hero whom the American government has kept locked up for almost 40 years, much of it in solitary confinement.
Peltier was jailed for murder after two FBI agents were killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. The case against Peltier was weak at the time and has since been thoroughly discredited — yet Leonard Peltier remains in prison at age 70 and in failing health.
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