Peltier maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975. He says he will spend the rest of his life fighting for Native American rights.
Peltier, 80, grew emotional as he addressed about 500 people who gathered at a festive event to welcome him home to North Dakota, Wednesday, Feb. 19, on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians' reservation.
The Turtle Mountain activist talks with a Cherokee journalist at The Associated Press in his first sit-down interview