…Peltier insists he didn’t fire the fatal shots that put him behind bars — the shots that felled FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a June 26, 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. “I was at Pine Ridge that day. I did...
The 71-year-old has lived behind barbed wire and concrete walls for more than half of his life, cemented in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As he wages a four-decade legal battle in a case clouded with conflicting testimony, political influence and...
[gview file=”http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf” height=”800px” width=”500px” save=”0″] What YOU Can Do to Help Ask President Obama to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. Call President...
Leonard Peltier, a member of the Lakota tribe who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1977, has spent 40 of his 71 years in federal prison. During that time, some have come to view him as an international symbol of the mistreatment of Native Americans by the...
Gesellschaft fuer bedrohte Voelker e.V. (GfbV) Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) On the 24th and 25th of April despite of rain, snow, wind, cold and even sun – in short real april weather – we asked President Obama with two vigils during the...
