"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.”

The march began around 10:30 a.m. at the newly renovated Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC). Information booths from various community organizations gathered in the MAIC’s Niibi Hall, while others congregated in the Frances Fairbanks Memorial ...