At Pine Ridge, the division between traditional Lakota tribe members and younger, Americanized Dakota natives resulted in multiple drive-by shootings. To prevent such, AIM was asked to visit Pine ...
Following the death of Ashton Provost on Aug. 20, 2023 and her Jan. 2025 murder trial, the Provost family said they've ...
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful for his supporters as they welcomed ...
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful to his family and supporters as they ...
The Indigenous activist has returned to his homeland of North Dakota, where the community is hosting a celebration.
Peltier had been asked to come to the Pine Ridge Reservation to protect members of the American Indian Movement who were taking a stand against supporters of Oglala Sioux Tribe Chairman Dick Wilson.
who is a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe in Pine Ridge, S.D. He noted that for nearly a century, the 1883 federal "Code of Indian Offenses" criminalized traditional medicine and Indigenous cultural ...
Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences stemming from a 1975 confrontation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Similar to Nguyen, filmmaker Jesse Short Bull, from the Oglala Lakota Tribe in South Dakota ... into the event — a 1975 shootout on Pine Ridge Indian reservation that killed two FBI agents ...