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To his supporters, he’s an Indigenous rights activist and political prisoner unfairly targeted by the U.S. government for his involvement with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, most from the FBI, he’s an unrepentant killer of two agents in 1975, a charge he denies. Now, at 81, and after 49 years in prison, Peltier lives under home confinement on North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain Reservation. We visited him there for a rare, candid conversation about his past, his anger, his activism, and the cause that still drives him.
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To his supporters, he’s an Indigenous rights activist and political prisoner unfairly targeted by the U.S. government for his involvement with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, most from the FBI, he’s an unrepentant killer of two agents in 1975, a charge he denies. Now, at 81, and after 49 years in prison, Peltier lives under home confinement on North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain Reservation. We visited him there for a rare, candid conversation about his past, his anger, his activism, and the cause that still drives him.