Leonard Peltier

Biography

Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement, convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, serving 48 years before his sentence was commuted to indefinite home confinement by President Joe Biden in 2025. Peltier has been a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights and was a member of AIM at the time of the incident. He was released on February 18, 2025, and transferred to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.