BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard ... country,” Peltier said. Tribal leaders presented Peltier with an eagle feather staff that supporters had carried to Washington ...
More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents ...
While “Free Leonard Peltier” uses interviews, archival footage and A.I.-generated reenactments to recreate the events that transpired that day at Wounded Knee, the film also situates Peltier ...
It’s an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the ...
BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. Despite being convicted and ...
You would have been hard-pressed to find a timelier film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival than “Free Leonard Peltier,” directors Jesse Short Bull and David France’s documentary about ...
To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States) and David France (How To Survive a Plague) achieved their eponymous goal: Seven days ...