Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement. Many in Indian Country see this executive clemency as a significant victory in a decades-long campaign for his release.

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of

Not many people know who Leonard Peltier is. He is a Native American activist who was in prison for 50 years and was recently released from a Florida federal prison.

including some who waved flags saying “Free Leonard Peltier,” were elated. “We never thought he would get out,” said Ray St. Clair, a member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota ...

After nearly five decades of incarceration, Leonard Peltier returns to his Turtle Mountain homeland following President Biden's clemency decision, greeted by family and community members in an emotional homecoming.

His supporters outside the prison, including some who waved flags saying “Free Leonard Peltier," were elated. “We never thought he would get out,” said Ray St. Clair, a member of the White ...

Indigenous rights activists take part in a rally in support of imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier, at Lafayette Square across from the White House, in Washington, D.C., on September 12, 2023. Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Indigenous ...

Peltier was ... be subjected even to house arrest. “We still have work to do,” his lead lawyer, Jenipher Jones, said. “It is our proposition that any detention of Leonard is unlawful.”