The band are longtime advocates for the imprisoned Indigenous rights advocate, who was granted clemency at the end of Biden's presidency

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier to return home to North Dakota following Monday morning clemency from Biden.

The president commuted Peltier over the objection of former FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a private letter sent to Biden earlier this month and obtained by The Associated Press, Wray reiterated his position that “Peltier is a remorseless killer,” and urged the president not to act.

American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during a 1999 interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. President Joe Biden commuted to home confinement Peltier's life sentence after he spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975.

With a new administration in the White House, Democrats in South Dakota are wondering what the administration will do to better the lives of South Dakotans.

In his last day in office, President Biden commuted the sentence of a Native American activist convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

In one of his final moves as president, Joe Biden announced the remainder of Leonard Peltier's life sentence will be commuted to home confinement.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

President Joe Biden, as one of his last acts on Monday, commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who was serving life in prison after being convicted of killing two FBI agents 50 years ago on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

"I'm gonna be so, so happy," said his sister, Betty Ann Peltier Solano. "It's gonna be one of the happiest days in my life. I'll give him a big hug and a kiss."

Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.