The band are longtime advocates for the imprisoned Indigenous rights advocate, who was granted clemency at the end of Biden's presidency
Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was convicted in 1977 for the murders of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
On his final day in office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Turtle Mountain Chippewa man convicted of killing two FBI agents. Many Indigenous communities around the state and nation are celebrating the decision.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier to return home to North Dakota following Monday morning clemency from Biden.
With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
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 he spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975.
The Native American activist says he did not receive a fair trial in the slayings of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
President Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old American Indian Movement activist who had spent nearly five decades in prison.
As one of his final presidential acts on Monday, Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout in South Dakota.
An Oklahoma City attorney says he's spent nearly five years on a legal team representing a North Dakota man former President Joe Biden decided to grant clemency to Monday.