It's the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: "Free Leonard Peltier," a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist convicted ...

The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday.

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

Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, whose case became a rallying cry for the Indigenous movement since his conviction for killing two FBI agents but ...

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Documentarians worked quickly to change up the ending of 'Free Leonard Peltier' after Biden commuted Peltier's sentence.

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

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents ...

Shortly before leaving office Monday, former President Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a far-left activist convicted in the 1975 murders of two FBI special agents, Ronald ...

Leonard Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975. President Joe Biden has sparked outrage after commuting the sentence of Leonard Peltier in a last-minute move before leaving office ...

More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two FBI agents and a Native man dead ...

This Day in History – Feb. 6, 1976.  Forty-nine years ago today, February 6, 1976, Leonard Peltier was arrested in western ...