volume 31, number 573, Jan. 5-12, 2017
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Free Leonard Peltier: Will Obama Release the Native American Activist? (Kevin McKiernan)
ON THE COVER: Leonard Peltier, at Leavenworth, mid-1990s, photographed by Kevin McKiernan, a Pulitzer nominated journalist who was at the 1975 shootout and has covered Peltier ever since.