What is Leonard Peltier?
{{Infobox person | name = Leonard Peltier | image = Leonard Peltier headshot from FBI Poster - 01.gif | image_size = | alt = | caption = Peltier in 1972 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|9|12|mf=yes}} | birth_place=[[Grand Forks, North Dakota]], U.S. | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | nationality = | party = [[American Indian Movement]] | criminal_charge = [[First-degree murder]] | criminal_penalty = Two [[Life imprisonment|life sentences]] | criminal_status = In prison; next scheduled [[parole]] hearing 2024 }} '''Leonard Peltier''' (born September 12, 1944) is a [[Native American]] [[Activism|activist]]. He is a member of the [[Turtle Mountain Chippewa]], who is also of [[Lakota people|Lakota]] and [[Dakota people|Dakota]] descent.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Who is Leonard Peltier? |url=http://footprintsforpeace.footprintsforpeace.net/?page_id=1106 |website=Footprints for peace, nonprofit organization |access-date=2017-09-15 |archive-date=2017-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913183409/http://footprintsforpeace.footprintsforpeace.net/?page_id=1106 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a member of the [[American Indian Movement]] (AIM). In 1977, he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for [[first-degree murder]] in the shooting of two [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) agents during a 1975 shootout on the [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]]. Peltier is incarcerated at the [[United States Penitentiary, Coleman]] in [[Florida]]. Peltier became eligible for parole in 1993; his next scheduled parole hearing will be in July 2024, when Peltier will be 79.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/07/20/united-states-v-leonard-peltier |title=United States v. Leonard Peltier &#124; by Peter Matthiessen &#124; The New York Review of Books |website=Nybooks.com |access-date=2016-11-27|last1=Doctorow |first1=E. L. |last2=Styron |first2=Rose |last3=