On June 26, 1975, FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were murdered by Leonard Peltier at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 1977, Peltier was found guilty of...

Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of murdering two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, which he denies.

3 days ago · More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. ... In a letter sent to Biden last year opposing his release, former FBI director Christopher Wray called Peltier a “remorseless killer.” ...

Feb 18, 2025 · In this photo released by Native American activist Leonard Peltier, right, poses for pictures with Nick Tilsen, CEO of NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led advocacy group based in South Dakota, as he was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 ...

Feb 18, 2025 · Leonard Peltier, the 80-year-old activist and "remorseless killer" who has been in prison for just shy of 50 years in connection with a 1975 ambush shooting that left two FBI agents dead on a ...

Feb 19, 2025 · 8 of 11 | . 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, dons a star quilt while surrounded by Turtle Mountain tribal council representatives during a welcome event, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at the Sky Dancer Casino Resort near Belcourt, N.D., on the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

Feb 20, 2025 · Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.) is a Native American (mostly Ojibwa) activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents.

Feb 18, 2025 · Mr. Peltier’s murder conviction and two life sentences, stemming from a 1975 shootout with F.B.I. agents on a reservation, have been widely criticized. By Isabelle Taft Leonard Peltier, a Native ...

Feb 18, 2025 · Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist held for nearly half a century for the killing of two F.B.I. agents, was released from a federal prison in Central Florida on Tuesday morning.

Jan 21, 2025 · In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.