Killer and American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier to receive welcome home bash 49 years after conviction in FBI agents' murders at Pine Ridge.

NDN Collective will celebrate Peltier's return with a celebration at the Sky Dancer Casino in Belcourt, North Dakota on Wednesday at noon CST.

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful to his family and supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota, one day after his release from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinem

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from prison into home confinement in Turtle Mountain after serving 49 years.

Leonard Peltier spoke to supporters Wednesday afternoon at the Sky Dancer Casino in Belcourt, a day after his release from federal prison.

It's been 49 years straight in prison for something I didn't do,” Leonard Peltier said, close to tears. “I didn't think I was going to make it.”

Mr. Peltier’s murder conviction and two life sentences, stemming from a 1975 shootout with F.B.I. agents on a reservation, have been widely criticized.

Tuesday is a historic day in the Native American community after well-known Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier​ was released from a Florida prison to serve out his sentence at home in North Dakota.

Leonard Peltier as a younger man being led across ... a 1975 confrontation on the in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in which the two FBI agents were killed. According to the FBI ...

Leonard Peltier (Photo courtesy of the Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee) On Friday, NDN Collective – a South Dakota-based Native nonprofit organization that has advocated for his release – announced that Peltier would travel home to the Turtle Mountain ...

BELCOURT, N.D. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the ... on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were killed ...