The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially ...
Native leaders, journalists and those impacted by the 1975 shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that led ...
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier was a leader in the American Indian Movement, advocating for better healthcare, education, and jobs ...
An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis that ...
According to the officials, Peltier — a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and then an activist with the American Indian Movement, a grassroots Indigenous rights group ...
And through it all, Indian-Americans remain deeply connected to their dual heritage. They don’t burn flags or disparage their adopted homeland. Instead, they celebrate its ideals, give back with pride ...
In 1973, it became the site of a 71-day standoff between members of the American Indian Movement and federal agents; two tribal members were killed and a federal agent was seriously wounded.
Former President Joe Biden set presidential records for pardons and commutations during his time in office, a number he ...
On the other, Indian-Americans exemplify American exceptionalism through hard ... It’s a tug-of-war for the movement’s identity, with Indian Americans entrenched in the fray.
Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...