Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier ...
Jan 20, 2025 · President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the U.S. government’s mistreatment of Native Americans. The White House said Peltier, who is now 80 and of declining health, will transition to home confinement.
'IT'S FINALLY OVER, I'M GOING HOME': BIDEN GRANTS …
5 days ago · January 28, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) - Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, the elderly American Indian Movement activist ...
Biden Gives Parting Commutation to Prominent Native Activist
Jan 20, 2025 · On Monday, moments before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for nearly...
Indigenous Political Prisoner and Elder, Leonard Peltier, is Going …
Jan 27, 2025 · After many years of petitioning and legal battles American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier, is going home. ... Joe Biden issued a public statement granting Leonard Peltier executive clemency. This commuted the remainder of his life sentence to home confinement, which the 80-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa ...
Biden memorializes painful past of Native people - Voice of America
Dec 9, 2024 · President Joe Biden on Monday presided over his final White House Tribal Nations Summit by reaching into the nation’s dark past and establishing a new national monument to honor the suffering...
‘They didn’t forget Indian Country’: Tribal leaders and scholars ...
Dec 20, 2024 · WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland didn’t mince any words when she called Pres. Joe Biden the best president for Indian Country of her lifetime during this year’s final White House Tribal Nations Summit.
Biden frees Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, after almost 50 years
Jan 20, 2025 · After nearly 50 years of imprisonment, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency by outgoing President Joe Biden, finally securing freedom for the 80-year-old man.
ICYMI: President Biden Makes Historic Visit to Indian Country
Oct 25, 2024 · President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the "sin" of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a "blot on American history" in …
Biden and Tribal Leaders Celebrate Four Years of …
Dec 11, 2024 · WASHINGTON—Tribal leaders and representatives visiting the nation’s capital heard Monday from President Joe Biden how his administration has worked with Indian Country to strengthen Native...
FACT SHEET: President Biden Touts Historic Support for Indian …
Oct 24, 2024 · President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken historic actions to support Indian Country through executive actions, historic investments, and strengthening government-to-government relationships.