Supporters of Leonard Peltier, including members of the American Indian Movement, gather outside the Devils Lake Regional Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, to watch Peltier's plane touch down.

American Indian activist Leonard Peltier addresses lively crowd after prison release “It's been 49 years straight in prison for something I didn't do,” Leonard Peltier said, close to tears.

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 ...

After 49 years in prison, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released on Feb. 18. And now his Indigenous community is celebrating with a “welcome home” event. The Turtle Mountain ...

Leonard Peltier, the former American Indian Movement leader, center, had his prison sentence commuted by President Joe Biden before he left office. (Getty Images ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has left a Florida prison after nearly five decades behind bars, following a commutation from former United States President Joe Biden.

Leonard Peltier, Native American activist, released after Biden commutes his life sentence, ending nearly 50 years of imprisonment.

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by ...

As one of his last official acts, President Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, 80, allowing the American Indian Movement member to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement.

Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots activist organization that began in Minneapolis in the 1960s to challenge police brutality and the oppression of Indigenous rights.

In this photo released by NDN Collective, Native American activist Leonard Peltier poses for pictures as he was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, weeks after then-President ...

Mr. Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, a group that focused attention on the government’s mistreatment of Native Americans.