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.

Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences stemming from a 1975 confrontation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

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 ...

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.

More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents.

Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences stemming from a 1975 confrontation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Peltier was part of a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s that fought for Native American rights and tribal self-determination, sometimes occupying federal and tribal property.

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida prison on ...

Leonard Peltier, center, a Native American activist released from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, greets well-wishers during a ...

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

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