About 2,500 people were ferried from Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island before dawn Thursday for the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering and commemorates the 1969–71 occupation of ...

PLYMOUTH — More than 1,000 people gathered on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth on Thanksgiving afternoon to commemorate a National Day ...

Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about ...

It took two rounds of voting, but in the end, the National Congress of American Indians re-elected Mark Macarro to serve as ...

EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary Free Leonard Peltier screens at the world-renowned International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on Friday – but it won’t be the same version that ...

To many supporters, Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner unjustly punished for his activism with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, he is a remorseless killer of two FBI agents in 1975, ...

In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard ...

BELCOURT, N.D. — Earlier this year, Leonard Peltier returned to his home in the dead of winter after nearly 50 years in federal prison, a world away. Now, in the waning warmth of summer, his relatives ...

It’s an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs ...

You would have been hard-pressed to find a timelier film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival than “Free Leonard Peltier,” directors Jesse Short Bull and David France’s documentary about the Native ...