‘You’re not going to get rid of us,’ Vows Leonard Peltier amid Trump Assault on Indigenous Rights

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“We just want to be left alone,” the former longtime political prisoner said. “We don’t want to be part of a government that’s killing women, children, babies, and bombing every damn thing that they can.”Brett WilkinsOct 12, 2026 Leonard Peltier, the Indigenous activist who spent nearly half a century in prison for murders he says he did not commit before outgoing President Joe Biden commuted his sentence last year, vowed Monday that Native Americans ...