Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier is of Lakota, Dakota, and Anishinaabe descent, raised among the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Fort Totten Sioux Nations of North Dakota. He emerged as an activist for Native American civil rights in the 1960s. He wa confined at Leavenworth Prison for . Prison Writings is his first book.On January 19, 2025, Peltier's sentence was commuted to indefinite house arrest by President Joe Biden. On February 18, 2025, he was released and transferred to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.