Mr. Peltier was convicted for the June 26, 1975 murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

In this trial Mr. Peltier wasn't allowed to put up a self-defense argument. Any evidence that could have proven Mr. Peltiers' innocence was not allowed in his trial, and what was allowed was not put in front of the jury. Witness testimony wildly diverged between Grand Jury testimony and trial testimony; furthermore, several of the witnesses recanted their testimony after the trial, claiming perjured testimony because of threats from the FBI.

Prosecuting attorneys have stated on several occasions that they don't know who shot the agents that day.

Leonard Peltier has been held as, basically, a political prisoner since 1975. Please lend your name to encourage Mr. Obama to right just one of the many wrongs the US Government has inflicted upon the Indigenous people of the United States.