American Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier (born 1944) was convicted in the shooting deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Driving at top speed and unannounced into a remote...

Ten years ago this month, two F.B.I. agents were killed in a shoot-out with members of the American Indian Movement on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. After the agents were wounded and took refuge behind their car, they were approached by an unknown...

For the hundreds of thousands of Americans who believe that Leonard Peltier was wrongly convicted of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota 18 years ago, the recommendation from federal Parole Board examiners that he spend 15 more years...

Vernon Bellecourt, who fought against the use of Indian nicknames for sports teams as a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, has died at age 75.Bellecourt died Saturday at Abbott Northwestern Hospital of complications from pneumonia, said his brother, Clyde Bellecourt, a founding member...

Vernon BellecourtMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vernon Bellecourt, who fought the use of Indian nicknames for sports teams as a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, has died. He was 75.Bellecourt died Saturday at Abbott Northwestern Hospital of complications from pneumonia, said his brother, Clyde Bellecourt,...