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With one week left in office, the president could end his term with an act of mercy by granting clemency to the ailing Native American rights activist.
"You're not only representing yourself — you're representing your people," says the Indigenous singer.
"It shows he's scared," ventured one scholar from the University of California, Los Angeles.
"You have the unique ability to grant him clemency and rectify this grave injustice," reads a letter from U.S. senators and members of Congress.
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“If there was ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s is it,” said the chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
“The process of reconnecting to my Native heritage is also about rekindling something that has been lost," says Rhiannon Griego.
Joe Whittle believes the original stewards of the land are still its best stewards today.
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Granting clemency to the ailing, 80-year-old Native American rights activist “could be forever part of your legacy,” reads a letter to the president.
“We should be ashamed,” the president said of the government’s 150-year legacy of taking Native children from their families and forcing them into abusive boarding schools.
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