Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was ...
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday.
Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
"Free Leonard Peltier" has an appreciably wider focus ... (including TV news reports and in-prison conversations with Peltier), newly filmed talking-head interviews and often shocking public records, ...
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
Leonard Peltier, citizen of Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, gave an interview to MIGIZI Communications while standing trial in Wisconsin for the attempted murder of a police officer. Peltier was ...
One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...
The temptation to include those speaks to the overall structure of the film: "Free Leonard Peltier" is built largely out of archival clips - contemporaneous news reports and long-ago-conducted ...
Leonard Peltier, citizen of Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, gave an interview to MIGIZI Communications while standing trial in Wisconsin for the attempted murder of a police officer. Peltier was ...
There haven’t been nearly as many movies during Sundance where I’ve felt that. One of them is here in this dispatch, along ...
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after ...
President Biden's recent commutation of Leonard Peltier's double life ... so to speak, by getting an interview with Peltier in early July. U.S. officials asserted the Russians were trying to ...