Longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier walked out of a Florida prison Tuesday morning after spending nearly half a century behind bars. That afternoon, he arrived back home in North Dakota on the tribal homelands of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to reunite with his family and community. Peltier spoke to supporters for the first time outside of prison.

Leonard Peltier: “We are not going to give up. We’re going to win. We’ve been winning. We’re going to continue to win. We’re going to stick together. We’re going to unite. As it is right now, we’ve been united all through Indigenous countries. And we’re going to fight back. We’re going to continue 'til we are a free nation. I gave 50 years for that. And I'm going to give the rest of my life. So, they haven’t broken — they have not broke me. I am not broken.”

We’ll have more on Leonard Peltier’s historic release later in the broadcast with Nick Tilsen of the NDN Collective, who accompanied Peltier yesterday.