Jan 20, 2025 · President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the U.S. government’s …

January 28, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) - Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, the elderly American Indian Movement …

Jan 20, 2025 · 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 …

Jan 20, 2025 · President Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975, within the final …

Jan 20, 2025 · After nearly 50 years of imprisonment, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency by outgoing President Joe Biden, finally securing freedom for the 80 …

Jan 20, 2025 · FILE - American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., April 29, 1999. (Joe Ledford/The Kansas City Star via …

Biden commutes Leonard Peltier's life sentence A well-known Indigenous activist is celebrating his soon-to-be freedom. Before he left office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of …

Dec 9, 2024 · President Joe Biden on Monday presided over his final White House Tribal Nations Summit by reaching into the nation’s dark past and establishing a new national monument to …

Dec 10, 2024 · Monday’s action builds on Biden’s historic Presidential apology at Gila River Indian Community and the leadership of Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to establish and …

Oct 24, 2024 · President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken historic actions to support Indian Country through executive actions, historic investments, and strengthening government …