This letter was written by members of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in support of the release from prison of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier has been imprisoned since 1977 for the shooting of two FBI agents during the 1975 conflict at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In 2010 Amnesty International listed Peltier's case in the "Unfair Trials" category of its annual report.