FREE LEONARD PELTIER NOW

ACTIVIST. GRANDFATHER. FATHER. POLITICAL PRISONER. INDIGENOUS ELDER.

This is the only authorized U.S. website in direct support of Leonard Peltier, America’s longest serving Native American Political Prisoner, imprisoned for his 48th year in 2024. He is currently 79 years old.

The Leonard Peltier Official Ad Hoc Committee was established in 2023, working towards securing Leonard's release from federal prison so that he can spend his remaining years in comfort with his family and community.

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Learn about Leonard Peltier’s story and history as America’s Native American political prisoner whose journey towards freedom has been fought for by global revolutionary leaders.

Read his writings, watch the documentaries and films created for him, and explore his artworks.

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Leonard’s rapidly deteriorating health requires urgent care. He requires transfer to a medical facility for immediate care.

Your support and donations ensure his basic necessities are met, his legal fees, and priority healthcare is provided during his incarceration.

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Latest statement by Leonard Peltier on February 6, 2024

My life was taken 48 years ago, at 11:00 am. The sweater that my adoptive mother Ethel and her daughter Donna placed on my shoulders as I was taken in the bitter cold of Canada was a kindness that I still remember.

I could not foresee that 48 years later I would be entombed in a lockdown nightmare. I live in lockdown, for no reason other than that they can get away with it.

…but no one can break the spirit of a Sundancer.

URGENT APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS

On April 12, 2024, Jenipher Jones ESQ., a lead attorney for Leonard Peltier’s post-conviction legal efforts, filed a Request for Communications with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and the United Nations Special Procedures group, asking for communications to the United States regarding the denial of urgently needed medical care and an immediate investigation of the abuses and human rights violations habitually taking place in the nation’s prisons.

The Peltier Street Initiative

is a nationwide initiative to ensure the legacy of Leonard Peltier remains in the forefront of the public eye. As an icon of Native American political injustice, we must work towards maintaining his heart and sacrifice for his People to those who need inspiration to stand up against the forces of oppression.

  • Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.

    Leonard Peltier

  • Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior.

    Leonard Peltier

  • Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies

    Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings

  • It seems it's always the innocent who pay the highest price for injustice. It's seemed that way all my life.

    Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

  • I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.

    Leonard Peltier

  • Doing time creates a demented darkness of my own imagination....

Doing time does this thing to you. But, of course, you don't do time.

You do without it. Or rather, time does you.

Time is a cannibal that devours the flesh of your years, day by day, bite by bite.

    Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

  • I admit it, I'm tired. Over the years, I've hidden away my suffering. I smile when I feel like crying. I laugh when I feel like dying. I have to stare at pictures of my children and my grandchildren to see them grow up. I miss the simplest things of ordinary life — having dinner with friends, taking walks in the woods. I miss gardening. I miss children's laughter. I miss dogs barking. I miss the feel of the rain on my face. I miss babies. I miss the sound of birds singing and of women laughing. I miss winter and summer and spring and fall. Yes, I miss my freedom. So would you.

    Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

  • Do the stars have a meaning? Then my life has a meaning.

    Leonard Peltier

  • My crime is being Indian. What's yours?

    Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance