Leonard Peltier, aged eighty, was serving two life sentences for the 1975 murders of two F.B.I. agents, which he maintains he did not commit. Following decades of appeals and denial of parole, Peltier was granted home confinement by President Biden, allowing him to return to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. His life narrative intertwines with the American Indian Movement and the struggle for Native rights, symbolizing the prolonged conflict against federal policies aimed at eradicating tribal identity and land protections.
When I called him after he got there, one of the first things he said to me was, "We were at war." That war had already begun when Peltier was a child.
The government's actions were part of an attempt to end the trust status of tribal lands and the protections that came with it.
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