More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.
The Forum was on-site to document Leonard Peltier's return to North Dakota, from the moment his plane touched down in Devils Lake to his arrival at Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.
Leonard Peltier spoke at the event welcoming him home to North Dakota. . Full coverage of the
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Leonard Peltier was released after spending more than 49 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. An enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Peltier will return to his tribal homelands in North Dakota.
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.