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In the 1970s, Leonard Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement — a national organization founded in Minneapolis that fights against police brutality and for tribal rights.
“Free Leonard Peltier,” the opening night feature for the 44th Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival sold out three theaters at The Main Cinema, and for good reason. The powerful and timely ...
The acclaimed new documentary “Free Leonard Peltier” will open the 44th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs April 2 through 13. Screenings are $17, or $11 for MSP Film ...
The acclaimed new documentary “Free Leonard Peltier” will open the 44th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs April 2 through 13. Screenings are $17, or $11 for MSP Film ...
Supporters of Leonard Peltier, including members of the American Indian Movement, gather outside the Devils Lake Regional Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, to watch Peltier's plane touch down.
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier addresses lively crowd after prison release “It's been 49 years straight in prison for something I didn't do,” Leonard Peltier said, close to tears.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to ...
Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots activist organization that began in Minneapolis in the 1960s to challenge police brutality and the oppression of Indigenous rights.
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier ...
Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was serving life in prison for the killings during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.