So much time has passed that many Americans have forgotten, if they ever knew, what happened to an American Indian named Leonard Peltier, who has spent more than 40 years confined in various federal penitentiaries. This summer, a group of his family members and...
Free Leonard Peltier Martin Garbus and Rose Styron June 23, 2016 Issue To the Editors: On July 20, 2000, The New York Review published a letter by Peter Matthiessen, Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Rose Styron, and E.L. Doctorow supporting a parole application for...
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...