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 ...
BELCOURT, N.D. — After living in a windowless, concrete box for nearly 50 years, Leonard Peltier is discovering the little joys that come with being in a two-bedroom house of his own. He can see the ...
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 ...
In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since ...
About 5,500 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 ...
Film still from Free Leonard Peltier (2025), directed by Jesse Short Bull and David France (all images courtesy Sundance Institute) As a member of AIM, Peltier was part of the rising tide of ...
Leonard Peltier joins Hard Knock Radio from house arrest on Turtle Mountain, grateful to be home yet blunt about the political moment. He warns of rising fascism, culture-war censorship, and the real ...
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 in the ...
The Barnard and Columbia anthropology departments hosted a screening of the 2025 documentary “Free Leonard Peltier” on Oct. 14 in the LeFrak Theatre. The documentary’s producer Jhane Myers, a member ...
Continuing with our Native American Heritage appreciation, KX News’ Kyara Brown visited Belcourt, North Dakota — the birthplace of one of the most well-known Native American activists in the country.
In February 2025, Native activist Leonard Peltier was released from prison after serving 49 years of a double life sentence for the murder of two plain-clothed FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Oglala ...
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 ...