Leonard Peltier is a member of the Chippewa tribe and was born on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation on Sept. 12, 1944. When he was 21, Peltier moved to Seattle and became heavily involved in ...

“Mr. Peltier should never have been imprisoned, much less for nearly half a century, so I hope President Biden will continue to do the right thing and pardon Leonard Peltier now.” Peltier has ...

Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, led 33 members of Congress on Friday in a letter calling on President Biden to pardon Leonard Peltier — a Native American ...

WASHINGTON ― Dozens of U.S. senators and members of Congress wrote to President Joe Biden on Thursday “with renewed urgency” in their calls on him to release Native American rights activist Leonard ...

Ultimately, Macarro decided to raise the issue of clemency for Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who is serving two consecutive life ...

Hawai’i Sen. Brian Schatz, chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, made a plea to President Joe Biden on behalf of Leonard Peltier on Dec. 4. In a less than four-minute speech on the Senate ...

Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) called on President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a ...

We got to keep (demonstrating) why it’s not right,” Alejandrez ... Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos’ “Free Leonard Peltier” opening event will be held at 1817 Soquel Ave., ...