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Witness-tampering allegations raised in Feeding Our Future trial. Leonard Peltier returns home

A prosecutor in the Feeding Our Future trial on Tuesday raised allegations of witness tampering. They said that a defendant who’s slated for trial later this year approached a witness in the courthouse on Tuesday and asked to speak with him in a bathroom.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is now out of prison and back home in North Dakota on his tribal homelands of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. 

The House Education Policy Committee has backed a plan to roll back ethnic studies requirements in Minnesota schools. The panel has advanced a bill — with Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposing.  

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Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison

Prosecutor says Feeding Our Future defendant approached witness in effort to ‘corrupt’ process

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