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By Graham Lee Brewer BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) \u2014 More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom \u2014 the result of a commutation from former President Joe Biden \u2014 as the beginning of a new phase of his activism. \u201cI\u2019m going to spend the rest of my life fighting for our people, because we ain\u2019t finished yet. We\u2019re still in danger,\u201d Peltier, now 80, said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at his new home on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, his tribal homeland in North Dakota, near the Canadian border. There among the rolling, often snow-covered hills,… <\/p>\n

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By Graham Lee Brewer BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) \u2014 More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom \u2014 the result of a commutation from former President Joe Biden \u2014 as the beginning of a new phase of his activism. \u201cI\u2019m going to spend the rest of my life fighting for our people, because we ain\u2019t finished yet. We\u2019re still in danger,\u201d Peltier, now 80, said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at his new home on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, his tribal homeland in North Dakota, near the Canadian border. There among the rolling, often snow-covered hills,... <\/p>\n

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