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Donkees

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Mon Oct 13, 2025, 07:27 PM Oct 2025

PBS NewsHour: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on adjusting to life at home after decades in prison



Oct 13, 2025
To many supporters, Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner unjustly punished for his activism with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, he is a remorseless killer of two FBI agents in 1975, a charge he denies. President Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence, restricting him to home confinement. Fred de Sam Lazaro spoke with Peltier on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
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