Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”, Peltier’s trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier’s application for clemency.

“You must understand…I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn’t modesty. This is fact. Maybe you’re ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary.”

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Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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    I really gotta fix my sleep, I been full nocturnal for like the last two years. and it’s really getting hard to wake up early on like 3-4 hours of sleep because places only do stuff early.

    also something else, it’s pretty annoying trying to speak, only to like. I’m not sure how to word this. I could be saying something but then mid sentence, I suddenly just can’t speak, like my voice just shuts off. so I have to repeat what im saying and I’m able to fully say it the second time. either that or sometimes like, I try to go say something but like, but it doesn’t go through? my voice just decides not to work? so nothing really goes through. I dunno if that makes sense. It just annoying and this has been happening for like the last few years. It only happens sometimes, but today I was talking to my dad and my voice was doing that again.