Why the FBI Still Wants to Keep Native Leader Leonard Peltier in Prison at 79

Leonard Peltier, the longest-held Indigenous political prisoner in the U.S., had his first parole hearing in over a decade on Monday. Peltier, an activist who started organizing with the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, has spent nearly 50 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of NDN Collective, joins the show to discuss why the US government has continuously denied Peltier’s parole and the decades-long fight for his freedom.
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[@mladyriad]

The right to resistance is and always has been a fight 4 our indigenous ppl. Free PELTIER‼️

[@eltorocal]

FREE Palestine. Bill Hale - "I mean, there might be a public outcry for awhile... but then, you know what happens? People forget. They don't remember, they don't care. They just don't care. It's just gonna' be another everyday, common tragedy." Ernest Burkhart - "Yeah, it's -- it's not common." Bill Hale - "Don't do somethin' you're gonna' regret for the rest of your life... You're gonna' regret..." Ernest Burkhart - "I ain't got nothin' but regret, Bill..." Bill Hale - "You have a family... Children. Don't make it more of a tragedy..." - Bill Hale and Ernest Burkhart talking in jail from "Killers of the Flower Moon" (2023) It took 40 Years for the USA to sign on to the 1948 UN Genocide Convention... and it was the atrocities committed by the U.S. on the N. American Tribal Nations which fronted the delay. Ironically, in 1987, it was a Congressman from Delaware who finally signed on for the U.S... none other than now President Joseph Robinette Biden. If a Lie is told often enough... Israel will STEAL it and claim it was theirs all along.

[@donnyc9430]

The hell with Palestine and Israel I dont give a 💩 about any of them we need to stay in our own lane and get ourselves fixed

[@krissalkond]

Um.. resistance against what exactly?

[@eltorocal]

@@krissalkond OCCUPATION!!! ...dummy. What are you, eleven?

[@mladyriad]

@@krissalkond Corruption and injustice

[@carolynzaremba5469]

LEONARD PELTIER MUST BE FREED!

[@annmatthews196]

I was among that movement, I remember it well, I'm 79 years old now and I will never forget Leonard Peltier

[@StephanieSoressi]

Please tell us more!

[@erinmac4750]

Please share your's and Leonard's stories. People need to hear these lived experiences, especially the youth. They need to pick up on the movements to make a better future.

[@NoName-ml5yk]

He admitted he shot at the FBI agents, but conveniently claims he didn't kill them.

[@JessicaCooper-m4i]

Free Leonard Peltier! In my thoughts in support of his release.

[@ryanm7097]

Free Leonard Peltier!

[@stoneymcneal2458]

Why do you support releasing a convicted murderer? Apparently, you do not place much value on the lives of innocent people.

[@stoneymcneal2458]

@@ryanm7097Why do you support the release of a convicted murderer?

[@mikedared5969]

free this man,federal govt are such cowards😊

[@mikedared5969]

@@stoneymcneal2458 you know NOT what you speak of so ZIP it kid

[@bertanelson8062]

Glad to see you do this for Leonard Peltier. I've followed his situation from the beginning (am 74), read his books & received much courage from this righteous man. I'm white born in USA & I am clear that we "settlers" decisively hurt ourselves with all transgressions against native people. All this still goes on & Peltier is a testimony to that fact.

[@HippieNinja-lv5lp]

Peltier had a chance at freedom IF & only IF he admitted to killing those 2 guys. He didn't do it. Ego? Doubling down on a lie? Or maybe, just maybe, he's innocent.

[@Skidderoperator]

A huge part of class warfare/THEFT, is persection of indigenous folks.

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

Indeed. What you said is also true concerning the 'migrants' aka colonizers in Europe today. Their transgressions against the indigenous Europeans will only come back to bite them. Wisdom Indeed!

[@sarashepard7504]

The indigenous need land back and reparations. Wrongs need to be corrected and settlers need to start moving back to their respective countries

[@Skidderoperator]

@@sarashepard7504 Hahahaha! 😆

[@nativestacker4185]

I was young when Leonard Peltier was arrested , but he has always been a HERO to me for the things he did for our people . I hope he is released soon .

[@drghulamqadirlone922]

An example of American violation of human morality

[@loraelizabethheiniemi5905]

FREE Leonard Peltier NOW!!

[@retiredteacher6289]

Peltier is a PRISONER OF WAR!! Free Leonard!!

[@nicholettematelyan1596]

American Government trades a arms dealer for a basketball player. But can't release an elderly man. Who's innocent stood his ground for my peoples freedom. Calling for justice for my indigenous peoples.

[@daniellaforge4956]

Exactly

[@ZanienaKoosees]

America is f@#$ up this leader needs to be released now! I hope the FBI gets sued.

[@Not_my_real_name]

Free Leonard! His Life Is His Sun Dance. Thank You, Breakthrough News for covering this story! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@georgepoore3840]

I don't believe Leonard was convicted properly . He should be set free.

[@ibreak4pie990]

Amen to that! 🙏🏾

[@ZanienaKoosees]

I agree with this

[@Bears-mhy888]

Leonard Peltier was framed. God bless you Leonard you are in my prayers. FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!!!!!!

[@CrashTheSlasher]

So incredibly f*cked. Every single person on that parole board, every single guard, every single state prosecutor, has f*cking blood on their hands.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

Nope. Just Lennie. He's no hero.

[@ReidyRoo-s5b]

​@@ranchodeluxe1 no he is a hero you are just a 🤡 and most likely ⚪

[@ricosuaveon2]

@@ranchodeluxe1 Explain. Reciepts?

[@ranchodeluxe1]

@@ricosuaveon2 I live there. Three words : Anna Mae Aquash.

[@ricosuaveon2]

@@ranchodeluxe1 Thank you. So you believe he was responsible?

[@eamar0509]

FREEDOM FOR FREEDOM FIGHTERS ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! ✊✊🏽✊🏿💚🇵🇸🕊️🌿 END OF WESTERN HEGEMONY

[@terriarnold4364]

He needs to be set "free! " He was set up by the government? Set Him Free! 🙏❤️🙏💜

[@SuperStrik9]

In Canada our treatment of Indigenous Peoples has been horrible. The last residential school wasn't closed until 1997. That wasn't long ago at all.

[@kenw.4539]

It's like the "genocide" they accuse the Chinese of doing in Xinjiang. The difference however, there was an actual cultural genocide against the indigenous people of North America to erase their culture.

[@stephenc6955]

@@DocSeabright Yeah, mythical residential schools never existed, but somehow, thank god we took the _Indian_ out of the children. And this land _Kanata,_ the largest land theft in modern history, it's all good. Cuz nobody lived here to begin with. Do I sound like a _chosen person?_ You too.

[@BCooperArtMind]

I'm the son of a "Native American" (Choctaw), and father to Native Amazonian children (Shuar/Kichwa). it's wonderful to see BN, especially lovely, Rania, giving some time to indigenous peoples. They get so little of it. I leave the US (I only live in the States to take care of my elderly mom) for the Ecuadorian Amazon to visit my family in a couple weeks. Each time I return to the Amazon I see more and more destruction--a sharp decline towards the deep abyss of "Modern" (read: Imperial, conquerors) society. It breaks my heart to see my kids collapsing into this cognitive dissonance. As a side note, and this's not meant as a competition or to degrade, but I'd highly suggest that the indigenous peoples of Central and South America live in an abject poverty (and lowest life expectancy) more pronounced than here in the US. Yes, it's bad here, I get that, but when you live under a Third World country, you live in the Fourth World. You not only take on the Third World (the country you live under), but as well, the First (the US, in particular. See: Monroe Doctrine). Ecuador splits the Shuar and Achuar with Peru. Ecuador lost almost half its territory to Peru in the early 1940's. My Shuar father-in-law fought in one of the minor military skirmishes between Ecuador and Peru since the split, and was wounded in the leg. He said when he was fighting he encountered Shuar fighting for Peru. This's what indigenous peoples deal within the Third World in the Americas, SOUTH of the border. I doubt the veracity by Tilsen to his claims of lowest life expectancy and abject poverty in the "Western" hemisphere (in the Northern hemishere, for sure). I've seen both, and the "Native South Americans" exceed his claim, unfortunately. Free Peltier!

[@bertanelson8062]

Yes, colonial imperialism continues its painful journey throughout South America, Africa, and of course, circles around to those people who seem to benefit. Not the elites, necessarily, though they also damage themselves, but the ignorant "beneficiaries" who give no thought, are taught racism & who, themselves are left in the dust when no longer needed.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

Splitting hairs. " My misery is more miserable than your misery." You think the Lakota don't fight a corrupt US govt everyday? When was the last time they mentioned anything besides Orange Man Bad, Putey Bad, or Israel is a victim?

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

I'm of Choctaw and Lakota ancestry. Thank you Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear for having Nick Tilsen on your show, and getting the message about Leonard Peltier to younger generations and next generation anti-colonialist. Much appreciated👌🏼Free Leonard Peltier from the chains of American settler colonialism ✊🏼

[@southpaw786]

Thank you Break Through News, always enlightening and vital 🙏❤️🇵🇸✌️

[@Reid-mv4ll]

Here is a great example of how American colonialism is an ongoing issue, not relegated to the days of manifest destiny.

[@stuartday1330]

Uhhh no it's not. He's a murderer. Should we just let him walk around?

[@sahelichowdhury]

​@@stuartday1330 He did not murder anyone.

[@stuartday1330]

@@sahelichowdhury Welpt neither of us were there so neither of us can say irrefutably what he did or didn't do. However a court with 12 Jurors apparently looked at enough evidence that suggests he did. And then he's been in prison during periods where the most radical socialists, this country has ever seen, have been in power. And still they won't let him out. So that suggests some amount of truth.

[@donnyc9430]

​@@stuartday1330 you know nothing. Keep drinking the kool-aid

[@stuartday1330]

@@donnyc9430 I know what's right and what's wrong. You're seemingly confused by this concept.

[@davidramirez5127]

A true Hero of the people..

[@abdullahmohamed7203]

This is absolutely criminal. This man is not the one who should be behind bars.

[@obedirect5491]

The government cruelty is maddening.

[@Chief-o5x]

Hardcore baby boo

[@melaniehaskan7104]

The government is cruelty. They will never be better. They are TRUMP all the way.

[@DimitryCheniche]

I was a schoolboy following Peltier story in USSR press. Didn’t skip a one article. But then counter-revolution came to my country the yellow press started to promote US authority version of the story, slandering Peltier as a criminal.

[@eltorocal]

Bill Hale - "I mean, there might be a public outcry for awhile... but then, you know what happens? People forget. They don't remember, they don't care. They just don't care. It's just gonna' be another everyday, common tragedy." Ernest Burkhart - "Yeah, it's -- it's not common." Bill Hale - "Don't do somethin' you're gonna' regret for the rest of your life... You're gonna' regret..." Ernest Burkhart - "I ain't got nothin' but regret, Bill..." Bill Hale - "You have a family... Children. Don't make it more of a tragedy..." - Bill Hale and Ernest Burkhart talking in jail from "Killers of the Flower Moon" (2023) It took 40 Years for the USA to sign on to the 1948 UN Genocide Convention... and it was the atrocities committed by the U.S. on the N. American Tribal Nations which fronted the delay. Ironically, in 1987, it was a Congressman from Delaware who finally signed on for the U.S... none other than now President Joseph Robinette Biden. If a Lie is told often enough... Israel will STEAL it and claim it was theirs all along.

[@Pbav8tor]

My step-dad was Montana Blackfoot. We never bought it.

[@StephanieSoressi]

And just look how much the U.S. appreciated that. Not at all. Please know that there are many Americans who would embrace Russians knowing you are not our enemy. May all good things come to you -- with love from America.

[@7hilladelphia]

Wow 😮😢 ​@@eltorocal

[@DimitryCheniche]

@@StephanieSoressi Russian people understand that american people are not their enemy. It is American imperialism to blame. American imperialism is not only enemy of oppressed nations, or nations that it tries to put under its control, but a first and foremost enemy of very american people.

[@matinahasgood8992]

It's been 48 years to investigate for 48 years now . They should have known that our elder Leonard Peltier is innocent and not guilty to all charge.

[@yaimcjsdad]

Leonard is American’s Mandela. One of the last true American heroes. His story should be taught in school.

[@Bonzi_Buddy]

He is a murderer

[@yaimcjsdad]

@@Bonzi_Buddy who did he “murder”?

[@Bonzi_Buddy]

@@yaimcjsdad the murderer you worship has a shot to get out of prison if Biden loses. He will have nothing to lose letting your killer pal go. He will not pardon him prior to the election and Trump will not pardon him after. If Biden does not free the killer, he will not have a chance for a pardon for another 4 years plus.

[@candyleon4072]

The native struggle is real. Free Lenard Peltier.

[@ibreak4pie990]

@@Bonzi_Buddywere you there?

[@Amarie-Merendina]

Leonard Peltier is on the list with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden that Jill Stein says would be Pardoned on DAY ONE If she were to be elected. Along with a platform that could improve Native Americans lives exponentially!

[@donHooligan]

Doctor Jill Stein is a champion.

[@serafinobueti7154]

That's great! But, she also says she'll declare a ''climate emergency'' on day one. That will screw everyone (except a few who will benefit largely thru another upward transfer of wealth),including indigenous Americans.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

Never seen her here. President Trump came. We missed the opportunity to have his ear. Instead, Nick Tilsen and his crew rented the vans we used to get at a great rate, went to Mt Rushmore, destroyed the vans, used them to block the road in order to ruin the event for everyone. If that wasn't enough, he roughed up a Pennington County Deputy. Tilsen weighs 350. SHE weighed 120. Real heroes here.Now, we can't rent from the agency any vans to haul people from Rapid City to see relatives on the Rez. Bring folks to town for treatment. Etc. I warned the charity I was involved with to steer clear. We were doing just fine with small donors. But they had to get some Soros cash. Now, it's all in ruins. Just like Wounded Knee Village. Can't buy a jug of milk or gallon of gas to this day. 50 years later.

[@donHooligan]

@@ranchodeluxe1 Trump's fireworks were 100% illegal. every sane American should have protested. maybe every sane American did...

[@Pbav8tor]

And Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

[@matinahasgood8992]

It's so sad and brokening heart to see an elder Leonard Peltier being lock up for nothing.

[@scottlund4562]

It was not nothing, it was a horrendous crime that screamed for justice. Unfortunately, the vigilante minded government put the spotlight on Leonard and made puzzle pieces fit in an unjust way.

[@krissalkond]

@@scottlund4562 Leonard should be free. I have no idea what the families of the two agents have in this say. I dont even know why they were shot at and lost their lives.

[@NoName-ml5yk]

Nothing?? He admitted he shot at the FBI agents, but conveniently claims he didn't kill them.

[@patrickmitchell3794]

Leonard peltier, Is nothing more than a political prisoner because they fear him as a great leader too not only the lakota but all the Indigenous People's of our great land. I am Tsalagi Cherokee and have all of the Greatest Honor and Respect for this Great man . I will stand for this man forever until this man Is returned to his land and his people. It is time for him to return to where he belongs. Aho and Emenv.

[@LisaWoodty-vm3fx]

Russell Means is with u in spirit Leonard Peltier…praying and fighting 4 your release! Stay strong! 🙏👍 💜🔥energy

[@katewaterbaby]

This continues to be so sick, horrifying, and sorrowful. I’m ashamed to live in the country doing this to him. Prayers always-for releasing him to his family, his community, and good doctors.🙏

[@hermanstrasse982]

Free Leonard!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Clementine_D]

I can't believe Leonard Peltier is STILL in prison...shame!

[@guythomas5920]

FBI has been obviously, blatently, purposely corrupt before this 50+ years ago, before 11/22/63, maybe not before J Edgar Hoover. FREE ELDER LEONORD, jail FBI!

[@e.y.y.t.5335]

Excellent Report. Thank you #FreeLeonardPeltierNow

[@amyhayutin1738]

Thank you Nick for your informative interview. You bring up how Leonard’s life interweaves different parts of history. He’s truly a living legend that more than deserves some dignity in his elder years! Free Peltier Now!!!❤❤❤

[@mothersgauri4137]

I've been following this story for so many years. It is absolutely horrific that he has been kept like this his whole life. I think at this point, the government is too embarrassed to release him and admit what they did.. I wish his story would get much, much more press.

[@nedkelly8495]

Sending greetings of solidarity to mr peltier. From newzealand aotearoa. Kia kaha! Kia toa!

[@fewcommentsonnews.4842]

INTERVIEWER was extremilly important at this point on shedding light onto this harsh issue to deeming into. For us , of Which didn't know the Ativism protagonized by these important CHARACTER of the indigenous fight against oppression in the America's Ground. MR. Leonard Peltier serving " live Sentence "being to him denied the PAROLE hearing. WE have had the opportunity to learn about his history, Which was one achievement most to added in our personal Culture.

[@philliprode907]

This story breaks my heart, we have real criminals who have committed heinous crimes on purpose roaming free and this man cannot get parole that’s sad.

[@MrStaybrown]

So many pardons. Pardon Peltier.

[@beaupianiste3738]

He needs clemency, as he never committed a crime.

[@ElRayDelRio]

My dad did almost a decade in the pen with Leonard Peltier. When he came home after his bid, you could see the change in his character. From a Camarada and active Sureno to becoming Crazy Eyes from the Brave Bear Clan, these beautiful human beings blessed my father with the knowledge from elder like Peltier, my father felt the love and good spirit in these men & turned to the Native Americans for guidance and wisdom.

[@shamimsameja4536]

Thank you for reporting Appreciate your honesty

[@yeska62]

The U$$A......? Shameful!

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Break Through News, for having Nick Tilsen on. Free Leonard Peltier. Listen to "Migration" music by David Darling, Mark Miller, & Chris White. 🙏❤️🌎🌍🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[@matinahasgood8992]

Free now Free now No more adding word. No more holding to our elder Leonard Peltier. Frre now m

[@matinahasgood8992]

No more mistreat my vision Leonard Peltier. Time to my vision Leonard Peltier now.

[@MARDISTRONG-qv2cx]

The government will get bad karma because they deserve it messing with American Indians as a political pawn. American Indians are here and have been here and will be here for a long time coming we are power.

[@terryconley5580]

#FreeLeonardPeltier ‼️

[@DaveKraft1]

Never underestimate the level of cruelty this Empire will be willing to employ. This will backfire on the System, since, if he dies in prison, they will create a martyr much larger than what he has already become.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

Not in Porcupine Village. They despise this joker.

[@jojo5715]

@@ranchodeluxe1 instead of leaving vague comments, give a detailed comment on why you have this perspective. You are not inspiring me to do more research with trolling, but a less snarky explanation of why you feel this way could.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

@@jojo5715 My best friend ranches 7 miles from Peltier's Village. He's always been a known scoundrel who committed violence against his own people. I know some Lakota Warriors. They are the ones bringing a buffalo to the Wounded Knee community center for Wateca. They are the ones driving elders 150 miles for dialysis. They are the ones hooking the whole Reservation to good water. Don't believe a word I say. Just research the name Anna Mae Aquash. And when you get to the part where she's accused of being a Federal snitch, ask yourself, even if that's true, did she deserve to be raped and shot in the head at Sheep Mountain, while praying for her daughters? If so, Peltier gets the credit. There's a lifetime of homework for you.

[@caylia9989]

Free Turtle Island ! It belongs Indigenous People!!

[@harmlessdove1980]

Not racist black and white people

[@DocSeabright]

Turn it over to illegal aliens.

[@misshelloareyouthere]

Who is that?red skinned indigenous people from US origin is Asian and black skinned indigenous people origin is Africa.

[@LuciaBeans]

​@@misshelloareyouthere Learn history so you can understand the statement before you respond. "Turtle island" was stolen from the people who subsisted on the land. The land, and therefore the resources that allow for human survival, was stolen through trickery, betrayal, mass murder, and heinous atrocities towards many, many First Nations peoples. And these betrayals continue today, as shown by this report on Peltier. Native Americans aren't Asians. Just because they share a portion of DNA with modern Asians does not make them Asians. Also saying "red skin" is derogatory and also inaccurate. Native Americans have varying skin tones. My ancestor had more olive-colored skin tone. Please educate yourself.

[@deborahkish5411]

Shame on the government!! Free Leonard Peltier NOW!!!

[@maryuggen3857]

Thank you for such a an informative post. Free Leonard!

[@janellis6490]

A great book to read on this is In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. It was a total set up; just like the Black Panthers!

[@ranchodeluxe1]

BS. Marlon Brando supplied Peltier with an AR15. IT was the only AR15 on the Rez. Probably the only one in SD. The evidence, not to mention his statement ( the one Anna Mae overheard that caused Peltier to green light her) " He was begging for his life but I shot the M other F ucker anyway." Convicted.

[@rickiefuwanfui145]

Let Leonard out NOW!!!

[@organboi]

49 years. How is this possible

[@donHooligan]

"Germany lost the second world war....fascism won." --George Carlin

[@matthewingerson]

The corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics are at the root of all the problems in the world.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

He's a murderer.

[@donHooligan]

@@ranchodeluxe1 resisting genocide is legal, kiddo.

[@atomictraveller]

heterodyning. simple MK entrainment. remember oj simpson? remember the crucial verdict for another case on the same date? you don't. no one in the u.s. does because of the MK. remember the west side of p49ua? not for 64 years.

[@elainemeeker664]

I am the child (68 yr) of a boarding school parent and remember the AIM movement, being familiar with how our brothers and sisters stood up to be a strong voice for all indigenous people throughout the US. The government plot to overtake and dismember their movement was and still is an injustice. Holding Leonard Peltier and not releasing him is an ongoing injustice to all the indigenous people. This same federal government has wiped out tribes men, women and children for over 400 years, depriving them of their way of life and life its self. Holding Leonard is nothing more than a continuous injustice of the US. FREE LEONARD PELTIER

[@erickahumphrey3061]

The United States has a lot to answer and pay for.

[@DefenderOfTheDPRK]

They expect us to believe that the U.S. doesn't have any political prisoners.😂😂😂

[@carolynzaremba5469]

Julian Assange is also a political prisoner because of the United States, even though Assange is in prison in England.

[@donHooligan]

Mumia Abu-Jamal

[@SuperStrik9]

@@carolynzaremba5469 Yep. Free Assange!

[@eltorocal]

"If you think you can Depend on the Government to take care of you ,, you better take a closer look at the Native Americans" .. Henry Ford

[@atomictraveller]

you don't even knwo about the west side of p49ua

[@geraldmantel4955]

The US --- still trying to solve problems that should/could have been solved 50 yrs. ago. Talk about kicking the can ...

[@aziz868888]

The Israeli journalist Haim Levinson did not want to lie to his people, so he declared to them that he was certain of the end of the State of Israel soon, and he set the year 2029 for the State of Israel to collapse, the few Jews to leave it, and the Arabs to rule it, and its name would return to Palestine.

[@MichaelGregg-wc2bg]

He has paid for his crime and it's time to release him from prison

[@marjoriegoodwin9302]

Free Leonard Peltier. The bullets don't match the gun. He was never guilty.

[@tupperlake100]

Just like Tecumseh. An American who was villified in life for protecting the American Indian. I have pftem wondered why American Indian tribes do not contribute to create a top notch legal team which protected their culture and resources. Laws would be revisited and legal actions taken where treaties had been violated. The most effective tool against situations like this is the press.

[@SuperStrik9]

Tecumseh is a hero in Canada.

[@ranchodeluxe1]

Well. The average Lakota makes about $6k a year. That figure in?

[@atomictraveller]

i often wonder how all the people in the u.s. totally forgot about the m450ns. john quincy adams political party was the anti -them guys - party. you can't remember it. there's no effective tool. people suck m450n peckers forever.

[@Feralfoundry]

Mostly because every single treaty the US government has made with Native people has been broken. Go back just a few years to Standing Rock Protests in the Dakotas. Watch the videos of what Obama and 45 allowed to happen there for months. When the Buffalo came, the colonists sent GUNS. The colonists sent dogs to attack. They used water cannons on protestors in sub zero temperatures. They used rubber bullets in sub zero temperature. They sprayed camps with mace and chemicals. All because oil companies want to run a pipeline through the only water supply that is available to those people. Thousands of miles of pipeline for crude oil AND THEY ALL LEAK.

[@Xianne027]

This is one of the greatest travesties of justice in our generation!

[@tinagrimes741]

FREE Leonard Peltier! Proud to be Oglala!

[@redblanket647]

Aho To your station and reporters for this story. Please stay on it.

[@lunabear4195]

Its so crazy he is still in prison! Unbelievable.

[@redblanket647]

My brother was 19 when he went in .He is 65 years old.They do not let out indians.He is in a California prison. They need to free them all. Including those in morgues across America as Jane dos . MMIW searching show the morgue photos of indian women .

[@Mach11976]

Leo should be pardoned!! I was 14 when that happened and remember it like yesterday. He got screwed by the government! Imagine that Native Americans getting screwed by the government. Sad

[@robertamurphy1124]

Peltiers imprisonment shows just how weak our gov. is. They are so fearful..paranoid. Truth is Freedom!

[@jeannerohl3509]

Those of us who have been with Leonard's cause for all of these years can hardly stand or bear what this man has had to suffer. I do not understand why we have allowed this. As nations are we not guilty of allowing thus? Somebody knows. As I have written before, SOMEBODY KNOWS. Bought and paid for!! How can you have lived and died knowing this man has suffered such degradation. It is time for whoever can help lead this infested purelant infection out into the open! I don't care anymore who you are or what you know. You must bring this pus infected rot forward so that Leonard may have a few years with in people! A'ho

[@wendywhite4929]

Because he was influential and they are scared

[@thejollyfrog2791]

I feel for the indigenous peoples of the North American continent we aboriginal peoples of Australia suffer the same as you do indigenous people of the planet must unite and take back our homes

[@iyashidragon]

Thanks for sharing 💖

[@aromero385]

Same process of dispose of natives happened also in Argentina with force. The last big one occurred 1860-1880 when military forces massacred - expelled Tehuelche Nation from their ancentral lands (known as Pampa Humeda or Wet Plains). Nowadays one of the fifth largest, fertile agricultural soils on the world, owned enterily for 800 rich families, who harvest annually thousands of tons of food staples, destined almost exclusively for exports, making food scarce with highs prices for ordinary argentinians, the remaining few surviving natives, mestizos, and poor people of europeans descends.

[@kathleenschumacher9082]

Why won't, or can't, President Biden pardon Mr. Peltier? Why?

[@angiejefferys5779]

The only people who are persistently holding this man in prison is the US government court system aka the 👑

[@Pbav8tor]

How many petitions over the decades with millions of signatures asking for his release?

[@LoffOksitosin]

FREEDOM FOR LEONARD PELTIER now! The world is watching mr Peltier. Blessings & Prayers from the Netherlands.

[@ICUFREE2]

Thanks for covering this important story😢! More Independent media should be covering Indigenous struggles in the "Americas". Yesterday we recognized the Lakota oyates victory against the U.S. and General Armstrong Custer at Greasy grass! Free Leonard Peltier in the Spirit of Crazy Horse❣ #FreeLeonardPeltier 🙏🏽🌎✌🏽💖 ✌🏽🍉✌🏽💖

[@merlin6625]

Denying Peltier medical help is definitely cruel and unusual punishment, it's unconstitutional. A'ho Hoka Hey ✊

[@johndasilva1080]

Yes and we shouldn't be fighting wars overseas if this government is not upholding the constitution and railroading people😮

[@fuckbankers]

An aortic aneurism can kill in minutes. The cruelty of the state is unfathomable.

[@atomictraveller]

oh you don't know about west p49ua

[@eltorocal]

"If you think you can Depend on the Government to take care of you ,, you better take a closer look at the Native Americans" .. Henry Ford

[@vicfadayel3261]

FREE FREE THE NATIVE AMERICANS … FREE FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[@IAmWithinEverything]

He’s 79. Let him out now.

[@matinahasgood8992]

Free our elder Leonard Peltier now . Stop adding word by the FBI agent are lieing.

[@ByronWoolley-x7t]

I am proud to have called the White House at least one a week for years requesting a Presidential Pardon for Mr. Peltier. I believe he is being held due to Institutional Intransigence of the FBI.

[@sarashepard7504]

My God, this is injustice and barbarism! Free Leonard Pelitier!!!

[@sandollor]

He's an important part of the movement. We've never forgotten him.

[@PaulCameron-o1b]

It is hard to believe Leonard Pelteir is still incarcerated. I don't know where he is now, but years ago I think he was held at Lawrence, Kansas prison. I saw a political prisoner once inside the. Prison at Chester, Illinois. My husband an I were attending a "Run" held inside the main yard of Prison. A guard stood beside me and pointed out the Political prisoner being held there. He said .most people don't realize our country has political prisoners here or in other prisons. I don't know what ever happened to him. Let us not ever stop fighting to free Leonard. We should all write letters or contact the White House and demand Leonard be set free. They have let off others and made "deals" and I think a man who tried to complete an insurrection an overthrow the govt. would make a good trade.Leonard should be out an Trump in! Leonard deserves a pardon. to breath free air. ❤ Cherri.

[@forestelf1129]

Incident at Wounded Knee.... It's time to free this man, he has suffered enough. Freedom is not FREE PPL.....HE HAS BEEN IN JAIL SINCE THE 1970S

[@modinatsolomon7506]

So SADD. Why can't them let him. Expecially now that his condition has worsen in carsiration with the crime he didn't commited based on what this man is saying. Very happy to hear of leaders around the world are in support of his release..Wishing him a safe and healthy released from incarceration soonest.

[@Omisaide]

#FreeLeonardPeltier #FreeMumia

[@raymondlarson2666]

Let him go, God bless you Leonard prayers for you brother

[@johnkesich8696]

Because they're a bunch of sadists?

[@snoopu2601]

When Pres. Trump was in office he asked if anyone feels like anyone is in Prison locked up that feels unjust to let him know about the case to see if he could get them released? Pres. Trump had a few people released that were facing life.

[@grannyreid]

Trump is a convicted felon. 😠🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@epmcguire9983]

Free my Brother Lenard !!! Omakiy Io. Lightfoot

[@KenSoHappyClegg]

Hes not a political prisoner hes a political message. The US federal govt will never cease its war on Native tribes.

[@SuperStrik9]

I learned about Leonard's case like a lot of teens and young adults in the 90s did. Through the music video for the Rage Against The Machine song Freedom. I highly recommend the KZbin page Our Hidden History for great historical AIM content. Great video of a radio broadcast called FBI Takes AIM from 1978 on that channel among other great content. I have zero affiliation with the channel it's just got a treasure trove of great political and social content on there imo.

[@sophirichmanfletcher4657]

This is heartbreaking. I learned about Leonard Peltier from watching the movie Thunderheart. I learned about the boarding schools from The Education of Little Tree. I am part Cherokee but was adopted by people who didn't have that information. I will pray for Leonard to be released before it's too late for him to get the help he desperately needs and deserves. 💔🙏