Peltier to be released to home in Belcourt

Joe Biden, in the final hours of his presidency on Monday, issued a final volley of pardons and commutes, including one for a man from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.In 1977, Leonard Peltier was sentenced to life in prison for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The trial to this day remains a source of dispute wi...

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