Leonard Peltier and the Long Road to Justice: A Legacy of Resistance and Redemption

From Wounded Knee to the White House: How Decades of Activism and Injustice Shaped the Fight for Indigenous Rights

I was raised in Oklahoma, where Native American culture is deeply embedded into local society. I had many native American friends, including the Peltier family, relatives of the man whose sentence was commuted by Joe Biden within minutes of leaving office.

In the late 1970s, I had moved to the small city of Norman, Oklahoma, home of the university of O…