The 80-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa returned to his North Dakota community on Tuesday.

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 in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

The Chippewa activist was greeted by more than 100 supporters and family members who gathered at the border of the Turtle Mountain Reservation

Native American activist Leonard Peltier celebrated his release from prison in North Dakota, marking the end of a decades-long incarceration. Peltier, 80, was freed weeks after former President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence to home confinement.