The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him ...

Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis.

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, 80, allowing the American Indian Movement member to serve the rest of his sentence on home confinement. Peltier was ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, moments before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden commuted the ...

With just minutes left as president, Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his entire immediate family—and gave clemency to prominent Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president ... Band of Chippewa Indians and then an activist with the American Indian Movement, a grassroots Indigenous rights group — was identified ...

President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence ... Peltier, an activist affiliated with the American Indian Movement (AIM), was one of several people involved in a firefight in 1975 that ...

With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the life ... Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization ...

With one week left in office, the president could end his term with an act of mercy by granting clemency to the ailing Native American rights activist.

The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden ... Biden said in a statement. FILE – Marchers carry a large painting of jailed American Indian Leonard Peltier ...