"It's a day of victory for Leonard and those of us who have been involved in the struggle with him for 40 or 50 years," Mitch Walking Elk said. “I’m an AIM member and this is historic for us."

Peltier, who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released Tuesday from a federal prison in Florida.

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.”

Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives gathered in Minneapolis on Friday to shine a light on a systemic disparity.  The march began