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I had been involved in Leonard Peltier stuff

since I was a teenager.

Many of us have been in this struggle for Leonard

for generations of our family now.

Now we're here, walking the halls of Congress

to remind America that we're continuing to fight

for Leonard Peltier's freedom.

So today you want me to go over exactly where we're at.

- Yeah. - Leonard turned 80 last week.

In a couple of months, he'll begin his 50th year of incarceration.

His parole was denied on July 2nd.

Yeah.

Now we're down to a grant of clemency from Joe Biden.

And then I begin to think, the FBI gets to be in the room

when he's making this decision.

They're gonna run the clock out on us.

It's not just doubling down on Leonard.

It's doubling down on their repression of Indigenous people in this country.

But our scrappiness, our never giving up,

our never giving in to the system to say there's nothing that we can do,

like, that is the story of Indian people in this country.

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How are you guys?

- Hello. - Good.

Go ahead. Thank you.

Thanks.

Bye, now.

So you about ready?

Yep.

- We're running behind here. - Okay.

I'm rolling. Whenever you're ready.

People say you're a militant.

What's a militant?

Well, uh, in the 1800s, they called us savages and renegades,

so I guess today I'm a militant.

All I know is that I'm, uh, someone

that's tried to advocate Indian rights,

tried to, uh... you know, tried to make a better life for my people,

tried to help them.

Uh, if that's a militant, then I guess I'm a militant, you know?

I want to ask you about the dead agents.

- Did you kill them? - No, I did not kill them.

Do you still hold that you were convicted

because you were a member of the American Indian Movement?

Yes.

Definitely.

The American Indian Movement, or AIM as it is known,

was organized to help Indians

from defending the rights of those on reservations

to helping those in the cities fight discrimination.

The American Indian Movement first claimed public attention

by occupying the island of Alcatraz

to claim it as their traditional tribal land.

Our Alcatraz occupiers declared our intention

to turn the island into a Native people's cultural center,

the first building to be seen by visitors coming through the Golden Gate

that would symbolize whom all this vast and wonderful land had been stolen from.

Racism and acts of injustice and acts of murder

are being committed daily across the country to American Indians.

This is the real story that we want to get across to people today.

On behalf of American...

I was watching TV one day

and I happened to hear Dennis Banks speaking,

and I got very interested in what he was saying.

Just trying to be an Indian is a... is a daily struggle itself,

and AIM was fighting back.

All over the country, we're all... we all live the same...

we're all living in the same type of oppression, I would say.

When I was 9 years old, a car pulls up to our house,

and they told my grandmother they have to take us to a boarding school.

There was mothers crying and dads crying,

and they were thinking, "We'll never see my kids again."

It was very, very harsh.

When we first got off the bus, we were lined up,

and they took us down into the basement, cut our hair off,

and took all of our clothes off and put DDT on us.

I seen, uh, kids that were 10, 12, 13 years old

being knocked down by grown men, hit with their fists,

kicked when they were down on the ground.

A lot of kids didn't get back.

This is what the boarding schools were doing to our people...

trying to degrade them.

The awareness of our identity, being proud of who we are.

We couldn't practice our religion. We couldn't practice our ceremonies.

Had me thinking that if I go by their book, that I'd become white.

It had a great effect on me.

It told me what to expect from Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Bureau of Indian Affairs, at that time,

had total control over Indian people's lives.

We were basically wards of the government.

The United States government, through the BIA,

their whole policy is to assimilate us...

to imitate the white man, to imitate our colonizer.

And we don't wanna do that. We don't wanna be a white man.

For years and years, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has done nothing

but, uh, disrupt and destroy our... our culture and our identity,

and our, uh, "Indianness" is, uh, what we'd call it.

I went back to the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation about 1958.

I started going to, uh, tribal community meetings

with my father and his generation of people.

About the same time, I was sensing something echoing deep inside myself.

I renewed my interest in Indian religion and, uh, Indian way.

A few friends and I sneaked out to watch a Sun Dance ceremony,

which was illegal at the time.

We got a few close-up glimpses of the Sun Dancers.

Those guys looked fiercely proud.

I vowed that someday I would be a Sun Dancer.

And then my friends and I were actually arrested by, uh, BIA police

as we came out of the Sun Dance grounds.

I began to realize that my real crime was simply being who I was, an Indian.

I started getting a political education of what was happening.

Our lands were being leased right out from under us by white ranchers.

My family, like many others, wound up with nowhere to stay.

We were being all but forced off the res to go to the new urban red ghettos.

I got to know Leonard way back in '69.

Like, uh, all Indians at that time,

we had cars that used to break down.

Somebody said, "Well, why don't you, uh, ask Leonard Peltier for help?"

He had a garage up in Seattle.

He was known for helping the elders.

Walking into this garage,

and it was all cop cars.

He had a contract for the law enforcement vehicles.

It was a very busy garage.

He was a generous, kind person.

I started getting active in different Indian organizations.

I tried to advocate Indian rights.

I was observing the police, how they were harassing and intimidating

and beating Native people.

I started questioning these police officers,

what gave them the authority to do this?

The way they would beat Indian people up when they'd arrest them.

They were being terrorized.

I said, "I'm gonna try to do something."

"I'm gonna work with my people. To hell with this." You know?

So I, uh, went to Denver, and I joined the American Indian Movement.

Bureau of Indian Affairs, as we know,

has been taking away our children,

throwing us in jails and prisons,

and forcing us to live in conditions that a human being shouldn't be subjected to.

We have found it necessary to force the white man to listen

to what Indian people have to say.

As sovereign people, we just... we only want the white man to live up to his own laws.

And you know that the BIA violates federal law every day.

We no longer want the BIA because we have our treaty rights.

The 400 treaties that were made

between us and our enemy, the United States,

said our territory was

for our absolute and undisturbed use and occupation.

But the U.S. government, they wanted to take over all of our treaty territory.

And so all the treaties were broken.

It's called a belligerent occupation.

Native nations that have ratified treaties with the United States,

those are ratified by Congress.

That makes them the law of the land.

So we had to go to the BIA, go to... to Washington, D.C.

We had to kick the door open.

A large group of American Indians

is traveling across the country

in a protest they're calling the Trail of Broken Treaties.

I had helped organize a caravan from Milwaukee.

And, uh, we went to, uh... on the Trail of Broken Treaties.

We went to Washington, D.C.

Before we went into D.C.,

we stopped in Indian country all along the way

and met with traditional people.

We were invited in to listen 'cause they had no forum.

They had no one to listen to them.

You know, every place we went, we would have big crowds.

People wanted to do something.

They were looking at the American Indian Movement,

it was giving them some kind of hope.

Our ancestors had to fight for our existence.

Resistance is an obligation.

I think there was about 1,500 to 2,000 people there at that time.

Uh, it was our hope and intent to set up a series of wide-ranging meetings

to, uh, discuss crucial issues, including an overhaul of the BIA,

putting it under Indian control,

and the treaty violations by the U.S. government.

We came here to create some concrete change.

'Cause we all came from these rathole reservations they put us on.

That's what the hell we came here for.

And now you got your position, how long is it gonna last?

We have met every request, uh, to this point

that has been made, uh, by your event people and, uh, others.

So, that's about all I can say in answer to that question.

We did not come, you know, to disrupt traffic, shout obscenities,

or burn flags, or to confront anybody physically.

I have said that we have bent over backwards

literally to cooperate with you.

Let me finish. Let me finish.

You haven't said a goddamn thing yet.

You've said nothing!

The Bureau didn't want nothing to do with anything...

Hold it, hold it, hold it. Just a minute.

...so we took over the building.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa-a-ooh

Whoa-a-oh, oh-a-ooh...

We occupied the building for a week.

I was one of the people in charge of security there.

I was asked to start making public statements

by Dennis Banks and Russell Means,

and I refused at that time.

I says, uh, "No, you got... we got enough people that are speaking here."

Anybody here from AIM?

- All right. - All right.

Is everybody happy?

Yeah!

Yay.

We are gonna control the Interior Department from now on.

And if they don't wanna get that straight,

we'll come back here and take over that building also.

How was it in there last night?

I felt all right. I felt pleased. I was well pleased.

For the first time, the Indians got to do their thing

and I felt really good about it.

I hope this is the beginning of our... of our future lives.

This determines our lives for generations to come.

We don't want them to suffer like we did.

No more of that.

The Indians were as defiant today as when they first occupied

the Bureau of Indian Affairs building.

Late today, a delegation went to the Interior Department

to confer with federal authorities.

But the government says, if no agreement is reached,

U.S. Marshals and Washington Police, armed with court orders,

may have to evict the Indians from the building.

We sacked the BIA building looking for files that would reveal

the government's duplicity in dealing with Indians.

And, uh, we found documents where the government

had tried to illegally buy Indian lands.

As some of yous know...

you know, we have a lot of the documents with us.

We have incriminating information.

That information that was submitted by the FBI,

that... that is out of this country now.

The papers at the Bureau

told of the energy companies' plans

for mining and destroying the natural resources.

We realized that the U.S. government

had this plan to destroy the way of life of the Indian.

In the late '50s and early '60s,

they were surveying all over the United States for uranium.

Now, this was because of the atomic bomb.

So they wanted to find as much as they could...

and there's naturally occurring uranium in South Dakota

on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Out of frustration and, uh, anger,

we lost control of all the young people.

They just went, started destroying stuff.

The white man's geologists have claimed

that the Black Hills of South Dakota

is the richest 100 square miles on Earth.

On Earth, man!

We, the Lakota, we've always known it's the richest 100 square miles on Earth.

It's the center of the universe. But that was spiritual richness.

The white man, he looks at the over 90 million tons

of taconite iron ore that's needed for tanks and military armament.

At the over 80 million tons of uranium that's needed for bombs.

For what they call development.

What Indian people call rape.

We just started, uh, getting more and more involved

with the people around South Dakota.

We knew that active members that traveled around

were going to be followed, to be scrutinized.

We always knew they were out to get us, you know.

They're the feds. They're the FBI. They'll do whatever they want to do.

Eight people thrown in the same cell I was last night.

The FBI has a reputation that they need to protect.

We perceive them as the United States political police force.

That's their real job, to put down political dissent in America.

We had allies,

and they would tell us how the feds operate.

The Black Panthers, for example.

The FBI killed their leaders in this country.

So we knew that could happen.

My name, as a security chief during the BIA takeover,

appeared high on their list of secret targets.

We were setting up a benefit in Milwaukee.

Me and a couple friends went down to, uh, this restaurant.

And as we were leaving, a couple guys was in the back of us,

and, uh, they more or less just started... just started provoking us, you know.

And, uh, we thought we were gonna get into a fight.

As soon as we got out the door, man, they pulled out guns.

They were police.

They handcuffed me,

threw me on the ground, beat the hell out of me.

Beat me all the way from that restaurant to the police station.

And, uh... and they charged me with attempted murder.

We found out later, after I had a trial, one of the officers' girlfriends testified

these two officers were assigned to provoke and arrest

American Indian Movement leaders for the FBI.

The American Indian Movement and the FBI

were like two locomotives on the... on the same track,

headed toward each other.

They were bound to collide.

And that's what happened at the Siege of Wounded Knee.

Traditionalists and traditionalist chiefs

on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

noticed there was a large mobilization of armored personnel carriers

on different points around and near the reservations.

There was, uh, people running around in military fatigues.

AIM was having a powwow in Porcupine,

which you had to pass through Wounded Knee to get there.

And so the caravan passed all the federal forces,

and they took over the trading post in Wounded Knee.

We started coming in, the hills coming into Wounded Knee,

and we could hear gunfire.

And then we all, you know, got... moved on into Wounded Knee, the village.

The feds opened up on us.

We were just surrounded, you know.

But you don't do that to Lakota. You don't surround us.

You're asking for a fight, you know.

And the standoff was, yeah, okay,

that's what you wanna do, that's what we'll do.

So then we... we resisted.

You know, we weren't ready for 72-day standoff...

...but we understood that we had to fight for our existence.

We have tried carrying signs to demonstrate.

They have failed to listen to us.

Now this commitment to social change

has forced us beyond the brink of violence.

I got out of jail

about three weeks before Wounded Knee was over with.

First day I got out, we started organizing, uh, food

and supplies for the people on Wounded Knee.

The FBI was very concerned by the grassroots support

that the American Indian Movement had on the reservation.

The government said that they were going to use paramilitary forces

in order to overcome what they would expect to be resistance on Pine Ridge.

The FBI wanted to be in charge,

and they wanted to be able to shoot to kill.

There were more FBI agents on Pine Ridge

than I have ever seen in my whole life.

Scared the daylights out of us. There's really nothing nobody could do.

They're, uh... They're their own monster in this land.

Don't touch my hand.

- Get back in the car. - Can I see identification?

You get back in the car and get to work. Where's your identification?

Just a field day down there for the feds.

They couldn't do that on any other reservation at the time.

The terrorizing was focused on Pine Ridge

mainly because of the tribal government at that time with Dick Wilson.

Dick Wilson was the tribal chairman at that time.

He supported the American Indian Movement when they first came,

but he turned against AIM.

Dick, are you surprised at what you're seeing?

I expected this.

Why?

They're hoodlums, clowns. This is the way they live.

This is, uh, about the way that AIM has operated all across the nation.

What are you gonna do with Wounded Knee now?

It'll probably be up to our council what happens here.

Of course, this is deeded land here. It don't belong to us yet.

When you oppress a nation, when you oppress a people,

you will always have those that, just to survive,

will turn against their own.

The corrupt tribal government, they're colonized.

You know? So they are not... not who we are.

They are not the old traditional people.

My dad was an interpreter to the traditional people

who only spoke Lakota.

Because of that, my father and I were labeled AIM.

"Well, you guys are dirty Indians," they would say.

"You guys are AIM. You're dirty."

Our home got shot at three times.

We have our own way of punishing people like that.

Shooting on the reservation?

You said it. We'll take care of 'em.

Dick Wilson was, uh, terrorizing his own people,

their own traditionalists on the reservation,

with his own private police force.

His vigilante organization proudly called themselves the GOONs,

the Guardians of the Oglala Nation.

Duane Brewer, who was the head of the GOON Squad,

he, uh, made a public statement that they were given intelligence,

armor-piercing ammunition, and sophisticated weaponry from the FBI.

Why would the FBI give you armor-piercing rounds?

Probably so that, you know, I had enough weapon,

enough ammo to... to do a job.

Against AIM?

That was who we're... having war with, you know.

When we recognized the fact that the government

gave Dick Wilson money, gave him the guns,

we knew that the government was trying to make it look

like it was an Indian-on-Indian war.

Well, there's been a lot of accusations made here lately,

and one in particular that upsets me is the fact

that I am using a GOON Squad, so to speak.

And what I've got to say about it is that they are concerned

and respectable and honest citizens of Pine Ridge.

All you have to do is say the word,

and we're gonna follow you.

You're the chief, man.

You're the chief, Dick.

Like I said a while ago, though, it's a very difficult decision

you'll have to make when you know that people may die.

Because the climate of fear and the atmosphere

on Pine Ridge at the time was called the Reign of Terror.

I understand your house was firebombed?

Yeah.

There was two of them.

- These were GOONs? - Yeah, the GOONs.

My little girls could've got burned up.

That was their bedroom.

There were 68 murders during that time,

and nobody ever went to jail.

It was awful here.

My dad was killed, and Mom was killed in '73.

And then my sisters were killed.

We were just in awe.

Every day we're all living in grief.

The BIA was not doing its job.

They didn't even listen to us.

We went from task force to task force,

trying to tell 'em what it was like on the reservation,

and none of 'em never said a word.

They said, "That's your problem."

You white people caused it.

We have hardship.

The tribal government is not doing a damn thing for us.

The very highly upheld Richard Wilson,

the tribal chairman of the Oglala Sioux Tribe,

has called us militants.

He has called us misfits.

They say we don't have no civil rights. They're depriving us of our civil rights.

They're terrorizing these people on the reservation.

At that time, we were having our AIM convention

in Farmington, New Mexico.

While we were there, a number of Indian delegates

from the Lakota Nation came down there,

and they pleaded for, uh, American Indian Movement help.

So I organized a couple of carloads of people to go down there.

That's how we ended up in Pine Ridge that... that second time.

I was there with Leonard and Dino and those guys.

I was only 15 years old, and I... I knew why I was there.

And I recognized the violence on the reservation.

All the killings, and all the beatings,

and all the stabbings, and all the shootings.

People would just be in a family driving along,

and the GOONs would stop them and search their cars.

If it was, uh, a religious family

that had feather boxes and their medicine,

it would just be thrown... thrown on the road.

And so Leonard being Leonard, you know,

he just went to help them out.

There was more police officers, more agents.

You could see the way the GOONs were, you know, intensifying their terrorism.

People had funerals,

and they would call for us to come over there and do security

so the GOONs wouldn't come interfere with it.

People would call us up at night

and say the GOONs came by their house and shot at them.

So Leonard, me, and maybe another guy

would go there and spend the rest of that night.

We had a camp out there on the Jumping Bull Ranch.

We had sweat lodges there. We had religious ceremonies there.

Leonard, Bob Robideau, Joe Stuntz, and Dino, the AIM people,

were staying on my grandparents Harry and Cecilia Jumping Bull's property.

As a little girl, I grew up there.

My dad would take us there,

and my grandpa Harry would sing, and we'd dance.

They were traditional people,

and they supported the American Indian Movement.

There was a lot of tension.

We was always on guard.

We were questioning their authority, and they didn't like that.

Well, we had security.

We always have 24-hour security around our camp.

And we always see the GOON Squad or the BIA police go on the road.

And the more we stayed there,

the more we seen what was happening to the people,

the more involved we got.

Time and time again, we were called to act as a protective body.

Looks like someone just took a shot at us.

- Let's get out of here. - They just took a shot at us.

Damn, Johnny.

Damn!

We were led into, uh... more and more led into violent confrontations,

and this is what led up to June 26th.

That day, two FBI agents, what we used to call ghost cars,

no markings on the car,

come crashing onto the Jumping Bull property

in the middle of a... a civil war.

I was down into the camp.

Then all of a sudden, we heard people screaming and hollering.

They were by the ranch house.

There was a shootout going on.

Norman Brown and the others, "Come on, you guys, time to be warriors."

"Get your guns, and go up there, and protect the elders."

We responded, and we ran towards Jumping Bull.

We were met by individuals that were firing upon the houses.

We had no idea who these individuals were.

We figured it was an attack by some of the GOONs.

I don't know really how the gunfight started.

My main concern was the safety of our people.

I ran into the houses because there's little babies there,

and women and children.

Got them out of there.

God, it just happened so fast.

When lightning hits, it scares you, you know, just like that.

I saw two agents that were shooting.

I don't think they realized how many people were in there.

There was only three adults. The rest were teenagers.

Leonard, Bob, they would take one position, they'd shoot,

then we'd run past them, and we'd shoot.

They shot in my direction, Joe's direction.

We didn't aim at anybody.

We had a, um, police radio, and you could hear them talking.

What's your location?

Oglala. They're on the ridge, firing at us.

We got a problem here.

I'm hit!

After the shooting started,

people, their agents and the BIA police, they were there within minutes.

This is a big reservation. Even if you travel at 100 miles an hour,

it's still gonna take you 20 minutes, 30 minutes to get there.

So, uh, something had to have been coming down.

Something was coming down.

Within, I'd say, a half hour, I knew that we were surrounded.

I went down there and kind of stumbled into what was going on.

There's some firing now.

Those sound like high-caliber bullets.

Ricochets. It sounds like automatic fire.

I'm down behind the back bumper of my truck.

At this rate, there's surely going to be some blood spilled here.

Looked out this way, looked out this way,

looked... looked across the dam, they were everywhere.

The feds were saying, "Shoot to kill."

We heard them saying, "We got one! We got one!"

And I was asking, "Is Grandma and Grandpa okay?"

"Were they there?"

"Is everybody okay that was out there?"

My dad said, "No."

"They got Joe."

"They got Joe Stuntz."

I seen Joe Stuntz laying there on the ground

with a bullet in his forehead.

I knew they were there to kill us.

Joe Stuntz was a quiet man.

I never seen him get angry.

He was a good person. He was a good kola.

That day when he got killed...

he wanted to protect my grandparents' land, their home.

Joe lived a...

We all lived in trauma.

Up to this day...

when people ask me that,

"What do you remember about the shootout?"

Like it happened yesterday.

You can do the same thing on the road.

- I can't see it. - I know, right.

The firefight lasted throughout the day.

As a result of that firefight, two FBI agents died.

FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler

were killed in the shootout.

When the agents were found,

they'd been shot in the head at point-blank range.

We knew that those agents out there

that were tracking us down would kill us.

So, we can't wait now.

"We got to go, just go," I says, and try to make it.

We've made a choice to come and die with you guys if that's what it is,

but we're not gonna die. We're gonna get out of here.

We felt that if we went through the tree line

and then cut up into the hills,

that we would have a better chance of making it.

I said, "Leonard, we'll never make it, man. That's suicide."

Told everybody, "Come on, brothers, sisters,

we got to sit down here. We got to pray."

If we're... if we're right, if Tunkashila wants us to get away,

then he'll give us a... a way out.

When we was praying, Norman Brown said,

"Oh, look, there's an eagle. Let's follow that eagle."

I looked up, and the FBI spotter plane

had apparently run out of gas or low on gas

and had gone to the Pine Ridge Airport,

which was maybe a... like a 20-minute round trip to fuel up.

And it was during that time, that very time,

that they made the run for it.

They made their escape in a culvert that went under the road

the FBI was using for all their vehicles.

It was a brazen act, and they made it because of that.

And that eagle led us to that culvert.

That's how we got out.

As we were running up the hill, I felt the bullets going by my head.

There must have been thousands of rounds shot at us.

None of them hit us.

By the end of the day, when we had all realized

who those individuals were that were firing upon us

and whom had killed our brother, Joseph Stuntz,

we knew at that moment that our life was forfeited.

...whose body we bury here. Welcome him into your presence,

and with your saints, let him rejoice in you forever.

I earnestly hope that the subjects

responsible for the deaths of these two fine young men surrender.

We have been conducting investigations around the clock.

We have approximately 100 agents at the scene.

We think that with the persistence that we have

and the patience which we exercise, we will finally catch them.

Government spokesmen labeled the deaths of the two agents an ambush

and a planned execution.

The entire reservation is in a state approaching martial law.

This is the FBI. We have you surrounded.

Come out with your hands up.

They came, and they just started... without a warrant,

50 of them, they surrounded our house.

And they're all armed with, uh, M-16s in battle fatigues.

There's nobody down at the house except, you know, just women and kids.

Indians have been beaten, shot at, bumped off the highway.

He's on private property.

You didn't give us your identification. You have never done that.

Any one of you have stepped in this yard never have given me identification.

We gave our full names when we came to the door.

You did not.

They're being slaughtered, beaten and killed every day.

Don't you have any conscience?

When Leonard and I were underground,

we kept in very close contact with other people in AIM.

Pine Ridge said, "We need some help."

"We don't have no weapons. We don't have no ammunition."

"We need to be prepared this time."

"These guys come close to us, we need to scare them away."

So they asked me and Leonard

if we could go and find some supplies like this.

So I said, "Let's go to California."

"Maybe we can go up and see Marlon."

He's often been called the best actor in America or in the world.

Will you welcome, please, Marlon Brando?

Everything we are taught about the American Indian is wrong.

We were the most rapacious, aggressive, destructive,

torturing, monstrous people

who swept from one coast to the other,

murdering and causing mayhem among the Indians.

There's one Indian in the...

He said, "You're gonna need some money." He had an envelope.

He says, "Here, Dennis."

And it was $10,000.

He says, "Listen, I'm gonna give you a...

I'm gonna give you this mobile home of mine."

We got in the motor home, and we headed out, headed north.

And, um, we got word that they arrested everybody.

The federal government charged Dino Butler and Bob Robideau

with first-degree murder for the deaths of the agents.

But it didn't stop us.

So we wanted to protect people.

And so we, uh, drove into Pine Ridge and went over to Oglala.

Saw a lot of our friends there.

Told them about Marlon, where we'd been. Said, "We're gonna use the money now."

Everybody know about it. A 100 here, 100 there, 150 here.

But at Pine Ridge, we were under surveillance.

We had to leave.

A bulletin comes out from the FBI

that Dennis Banks and Leonard Peltier

are traveling eastbound in this motor home.

Here's a deputy sheriff.

The town that he patrols is right beside a freeway.

Takes a look at the bulletin. Goes and gets on the freeway.

And just as he's getting on, here goes this mobile home.

He, uh, decided to stop us.

Claim the glory.

The deputy sheriff says that he heard two shots.

So he fires at the vehicle.

Leonard saw that and went running into the fields.

The deputy sheriff fired at him.

But he escaped.

I was called upon to help Leonard,

and I was given an address in Portland.

I pulled up, and someone came running out

and opened the back door of the van,

and Leonard came rolling in.

I drove him to the Canadian line,

took him in through Colville.

I was sure Canada would protect him.

Two members of the American Indian Movement

are now on trial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The defendants, Robert Robideau and Darrelle Butler,

had been charged with killing two FBI agents

on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota last summer.

The defense maintained the Indians acted in self-defense.

Robideau and Butler were tried separately from Leonard.

Their position was, we were being shot at,

and we fired back.

We thought we were going to be killed,

so we acted, uh, in... in a fashion to defend ourselves.

In addition, Butler and Robideau were both permitted

to introduce evidence of government misconduct in the case.

We were allowed to bring in evidence

as to tactics used by the FBI against the American Indian Movement.

In particular, the jury was able to see for themselves

the climate and conditions that prevailed during that period of time on Pine Ridge.

They talked about the Reign of Terror.

They talked about why they were there on Jumping Bull's land.

And then Clarence Kelly,

the head of the FBI, testifies,

and he's asked, "How do you define self-defense?"

And he says, "It's a person who defends themself

against an enemy."

And they asked, "Do you think this is what could have happened?"

And he says, "Yes."

So the whole question of self-defense

was, by the FBI's own admission, a credible defense.

Shortly after 3:00 this afternoon,

the jury returned its verdict,

not guilty for both defendants on both counts of murder.

A cheer went up in the courtroom,

and the defendants embraced their attorneys.

I believe that the ancestors were helping,

touching the hearts of those people that were trying to put me away.

And that's why I'm a free man today.

When Butler and Robideau were found not guilty,

it was seen as a slap in the face to the FBI.

So they were pretty angry.

Leonard Peltier is an American Indian

accused of murdering two FBI agents last June.

He was apprehended earlier this year in Alberta,

and American authorities want him returned to the United States for trial.

British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver

is the scene of one of the most dramatic and controversial extradition hearings

in Canadian legal history.

The Indians protested that they wanted him not for murder but for his politics.

His defense lawyers claim he is a political refugee

and therefore exempt from extradition.

What's wrong with having Peltier returned to the United States?

Well, he's, um, being sought as an especially strong leader

of the American Indian Movement, and people are very fearful for his life.

The evidence the U.S. government presented

to the Canadian government to extradite Peltier,

the Canadian government felt was inadequate because there was no one

who claimed to see Leonard either shoot the agents

or be present when the agents were killed.

I thought I had a good chance.

They had to have more evidence than what they had

to have me extradited from Canada.

But then, uh, my lawyer says, uh, "Leonard, I got some bad news for you."

I says, "Yeah, let's hear it."

And he says, "Well, your girlfriend's testifying against you."

I said, "My girlfriend?"

Is it on now?

We're gonna start it right now, yeah. Okay?

Okay, talk fast.

I am talking...

Leonard's extradition from Canada

was obtained by affidavits

submitted by a woman named Myrtle Poor Bear.

What did the affidavits say that FBI Agent Wood gave you?

It said that I was there on June 26th

and I was supposed to have been Leonard's girlfriend,

and that I saw him shoot the FBI agents

and I told him not to do it.

But I never met him.

Myrtle Poor Bear had signed two affidavits,

and they were very compelling.

She had said she was Leonard Peltier's girlfriend,

and she witnessed the murder.

She was an eyewitness to Leonard Peltier shooting the agents.

Those affidavits were submitted to Canada,

and they were relied on by Canadian authorities

as probable cause of Leonard's guilt.

But Myrtle Poor Bear was a completely unreliable person.

Why would the FBI want you to sign an affidavit?

I don't know.

When they, uh, produced the affidavits

from this woman named Myrtle Poor Bear,

this person I've never met in my life, I knew something was wrong then.

Leonard didn't even know her, but the FBI put her up

so that he would be extradited.

I mean, your government is providing lies

that people are having a relationship when they're not

or bring in people who say they saw something when they didn't.

I mean, that alone ought to be enough

to make the authorities hang their head in shame.

But, you know, it's not.

In American law, it doesn't matter

how the defendant was brought into the jurisdiction.

Once the defendant is here, they can be tried.

I was supposed to go to trial under the same judge as Bob and Dino,

but, uh, the FBI went judge shopping.

So my trial was moved to Judge Paul Benson in Fargo, North Dakota.

Judge Benson is a known racist amongst the Native population

who was going along with the dictates of the FBI.

The jurors were sequestered.

The FBI had snipers on the roofs

and just a whole army of police.

It has been brought to our attention that the FBI

has notified the local police agencies

to beware of the Indians coming for this trial.

You must believe this.

We don't want, nor can we afford, trouble. Leonard is the one who would suffer,

and the federal government would be the ones to gain.

We want the truth about the FBI and Indians out in the open.

We want justice.

There was an admitted racist on the jury, admitted racist. She admitted it.

She said, "Yes, I don't like Indians because they're all drunk and, uh, lazy."

She said this after the trial?

During the trial. During... We had a little hearing in the judge's chambers.

This neighbor reported that she knew one of the jurors

and that jury had expressed anti-Native attitudes.

"I AM SO PREJUDICED AGAINST INDIANS."

This was then brought to the judge's attention,

and nothing was done about it.

I stood trial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on the same charges.

I was acquitted down there.

Bob Robideau stood trial. He was acquitted.

We don't feel that Leonard Peltier can get a fair trial up here

because they're doing everything they can to convict this man.

I was there all during that trial.

Every motion that the defense made was... was overturned by the judge.

He protected the FBI against anything that would make them look bad.

At the Robideau-Butler trial,

they were able to put on a credible self-defense claim.

With Leonard, it was different

because the government had a different theory

for what Leonard did.

They maintained that, yeah, sure, Leonard was shooting at the agents,

the agents were shooting back,

but when the two agents were lying there wounded,

it was Leonard Peltier who walked up to them

and fired point-blank into their heads.

Basically executing the wounded.

The government had witnesses who put Leonard down near the car,

but they all testified that they had been coerced and threatened.

They said if I didn't do what they told me to do,

then they were gonna take away my daughter,

and I wouldn't see her again.

You testified at the grand jury that you saw

Leonard Peltier and Dino and Bob down at the death scene

where the agents died,

and you swore under oath that was true.

And you did tell the jury

that Leonard Peltier was carrying an AR-15 that day.

But you didn't see him down at the death scene.

No.

Then how could you swear under oath like that?

Well, I had no choice.

What I'm trying to say is, they threatened me, right?

They coerced me, they threatened my... my family.

What they said was that I would never see them again.

The government had very little evidence

to prove that Leonard performed an execution.

But they did recover some weapons, including an AR-15,

and they started testing the various rounds

that were found in the trunk of the agent's car.

And it was determined by an FBI ballistics analyst

that that specific AR-15

was the gun that was used to execute the agents.

And the government repeatedly said there was only one AR-15

that was being used in the firefight,

and that was being held by Leonard Peltier.

That was the piece of evidence

that completely vitiates any claim of self-defense.

And it was on that basis that Leonard was convicted.

Leonard had not gotten a fair trial.

The motivation was high within the FBI

to close this chapter with a conviction.

They needed to get a man.

We want to talk about this, what this FBI's been doing.

For everything that happens, there's a reason.

We want to discuss cause and reason now.

Sixty days before the firefight,

the FBI brought in agents on special assignment.

They were almost all SWAT team members.

We know that the FBI was monitoring the Jumping Bulls area

where AIM people were encamped.

And there's an FBI document that quotes an AIM article.

AIM was shifting some of its emphasis.

They specifically added this idea of stopping destructive mining.

Well, the FBI considered this to be a big shift in emphasis,

and this preceded the firefight.

The feds are coming down on Pine Ridge heavy.

It's always because of the land.

June 26, 1975, same day of the firefight,

Dickie Wilson's in Washington, D.C.

He signed away one-eighth of the reservation.

Just signed it away without the consent of the people.

About the same time, you've got FBI agents

provoking a firefight in the reservation.

I believe that the FBI provoked an incident that day

because they wanted to draw attention away from Dickie Wilson.

One-eighth of the land base is a pretty major political issue

when someone just gives it away.

It had to be planned. It had to be carefully planned.

I know that they came there that day to get us out of there.

Judge Benson, there is no doubt and little chance

that you have the ability to avoid doing today

what the FBI wants you to do,

which is to sentence me to two life terms running consecutively.

You do not have the ability to see that such a conviction

is an important part of the efforts to destroy

what little Indian land remains

in the process of extracting our uranium and other minerals.

Thousands of people around the world have and will continue

to support me to expose the injustice that occurred in this courtroom.

I honestly believe that you made up your mind long ago

that I was guilty, but this does not surprise me

because you are a high-ranking member

of the white racist American establishment

which has consistently said,

"In God we trust," while they went about the business

of murdering my people and attempting to destroy our culture.

I stand before you as a proud man. I feel no guilt.

I have done nothing to feel guilty about.

I have no regrets of being a Native American activist.

Are you guilty of anything?

I'm guilty of standing up for my people's rights.

I'm guilty of, uh, trying to stop the oppression

that I have experienced and seen my people experience.

Those are the things I'm guilty of.

You didn't say murder.

I'm not... I never... I never killed nobody.

I never killed anybody in my life.

I visited him a lot at Marion and Leavenworth

when I was directly representing him.

Usually, when you find a guy who's been sentenced to life,

he's down.

Leonard was not.

Leonard was spirited and felt strongly

that he was fighting not just for his own freedom

but fighting for justice in Indian country

and fighting a machine

that had railroaded more than just him.

The government did so many things wrong

during Leonard's trial,

I thought there was probably other evidence

that was not given to the defense.

So I filed a Freedom of Information Law request

to get as much of the records as I could.

And it was overwhelming. I mean, I think I got over 30,000 documents.

I came across a teletype that contradicted completely

the primary piece of evidence in the case

about the AR-15 that Leonard probably had.

It turned out that the ballistics test

that they presented to the jury was not a conclusive test.

But in fact, they had done a firing pin test

that is much more definitive.

It is like the rifle's fingerprint.

And that firing pin test revealed that Leonard's AR-15

was not the gun that was used to fire the fatal round.

And this had never been disclosed to the defense.

Peltier's lawyers say

he was convicted as the trigger man in the killings.

Now they say there's reason to question

as to whether he was the one who executed the agents

at point-blank range.

When we filed the new trial motion,

more and more people became aware of the case.

Peltier's supporters prayed outside

as hundreds of sympathizers rallied to an issue

that goes beyond one man's chance for a new trial.

We want to wake up the little people, let them know that...

what it says here,

expose U.S. government and FBI conspiracy

against citizens and the American Indian

who are citizens of their own nation.

This is what Leonard Peltier is in jail for

because he is fighting for sovereignty for the American Indian.

In Washington, 55 members of Congress

have come out for a new trial,

along with Reverend Jesse Jackson and other prominent church leaders.

In England, Amnesty International

and even the Archbishop of Canterbury

have called for a new trial.

It was popular to care about Leonard.

Free Peltier!

There was a groundswell of support for him.

- Free Peltier! - Now!

Free Peltier!

Whiskey River, take my mind

A number of prominent entertainers

have also taken up Peltier's cause.

This is democracy in action. Do a fair trial.

Do a trial without irregularities. And that's the only reason we're here.

Even the Russians had identified Leonard

as someone whose human rights were deprived.

The Soviets have offered Peltier political asylum.

They keep the story on the evening newscasts.

Two top Soviet doctors came to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary

to treat Leonard Peltier,

an American Indian activist who is losing his sight to eye disease.

The Soviets claim he's received inadequate care.

You don't care that the Soviet Union

may have human rights problems of its own?

No, I... I care,

because I don't like to see injustices done to anybody.

I don't like to see any human being mistreated.

But one thing about Indian people is that, you... you know, you must understand

is that when the United States...

we don't believe everything the United States government tells us.

They've been lying to us for 500 years.

By 1984, there was enough of a spotlight

on the unfairness of the trial that it couldn't be ignored.

And it felt like the wave was gonna carry him out.

A hearing to determine if convicted Indian activist Leonard Peltier

should receive a new trial is being conducted in this building.

The second day of testimony wrapped up late this afternoon,

and it was a long, long day for FBI weapons expert Evan Hodge.

The FBI agent who did the testing

was trying to justify this teletype.

And that's where things got even squirrelier,

if I can use a technical legal term,

because the prosecutor then said,

"You know, honestly, guys,

we don't really know who fired the fatal shots."

"Maybe it was Peltier, maybe Butler, maybe Robideau, maybe somebody else."

"We don't really know. But we do know that Leonard was shooting at the agents,

which is true, and... and that was enough."

Well, that was seismic,

because everything up until that moment

had been premised on the notion

that Leonard Peltier was a cold-blooded executioner.

And here is the government, perhaps a decade later,

saying, "Eh, you know, who knows, really?"

In earlier cases, the government specifically and clearly argued

that Leonard fired the fatal shots.

But now the government said it didn't matter,

because they presented the case

under an aiding and abetting theory as well.

The government does not have to prove

that one single individual did all these events

or even that he's the one who fired the final shot.

If you are an aider or an abetter to the crime,

then you're guilty of the crime.

The prosecution changed and flip-flopped

on who was the murderer.

A complete change in theory, necessitated by the revelation

that it really couldn't have been Leonard's gun.

A new team of lawyers filed another petition,

arguing that the government really can't change their theory,

and they're stuck with the jury's verdict based on the evidence they presented

and the argument they made. You can't just change like this.

The Court of Appeals in 1993 said,

"Well, we are going to say that, in fact, this theory was presented to the jury,

and there's no way to know if the jury relied on evidence

that Leonard was simply firing his gun, or whether they relied on the entire case,

which was Leonard executed these two guys."

"No way to tell, so we're affirming the conviction."

All of Leonard's federal appeals went to the Supreme Court.

Every time, the Supreme Court refused to review the cases.

That was pretty much the end of the litigation

designed to overturn his conviction.

People started talking about clemency as a path to justice,

and Leonard struggled with that.

He didn't want clemency to be granted

and a condition of it to be contriteness or an apology.

He was committed to staying brave,

to proclaiming his innocence in the process,

and not seeking mercy but justice.

There is not one shred of evidence that I killed anybody.

Never has been, and never will be.

My people know where my heart's at.

I'm not a cold-blooded killer.

I heard on the news that Leonard was asking for relief.

I was retired then, but during Leonard's trial,

I was the U.S. attorney.

I basically did not do the prosecution,

but my name is on as the prosecutor,

and I knew enough about what had happened to Leonard

to know that I don't want my name on this.

It really wasn't right, what had been done,

and compassion was due, and it was time.

So I wrote a letter to the president

saying that I joined in Leonard's request for relief.

As President Clinton's term draws to a close,

he's said to be considering presidential clemency

for some high-profile prisoners.

This is the time of year that presidents will often issue

pardons or clemency to people in prison,

and the American Indian Movement is hoping that this year

will be the year for Leonard Peltier.

Thank you very much.

I am profoundly honored to be in Pine Ridge

and in the Lakota Nation.

In fact, to try to demonstrate my appreciation and respect,

I would like to try to say something in Lakota.

My neighbors, my friends, we are all related.

What were your thoughts when Clinton

visited the Native American reservations

on a poverty tour of the United States?

Well, uh, I... I thought it was a good move in the sense

that it opened, uh, other people's eyes around the world

to the conditions that Native people have to live under here in America.

President Clinton, what is your position on granting

Leonard Peltier executive clemency?

Um, I will try to do what I think the right thing to do is

based on the evidence.

When Bill Clinton exited office,

most people were thinking that he could, he should,

he would commute Leonard's sentence.

But the FBI pushback on that was ferocious.

There was a rare display of power in Washington today,

hundreds of FBI agents marching on the White House.

They're trying to prevent the president from pardoning a man.

Some 500 current and retired agents from across the country

silently marching around the White House at midday.

No shouting or chanting, but the turnout

vividly demonstrates the FBI's intense opposition

to any clemency for Leonard Peltier.

He walked up to them as they were gravely wounded

and put bullets in their heads.

That's not the kind of crime that we think can be, uh, forgiven

with the passage of time.

The FBI taught people in the FBI Academy

that Peltier engaged in cold-blooded murder

and maintained a vigorous political vendetta

against Peltier and his supporters

year after year, decade after decade,

even though that evidence was called into question.

I must say it's very frightening

when I see government officials, armed officials,

marching through the streets of our Capitol

to convince a civilian president not to correct

the civil rights abuses that they themselves have committed.

It was in December, and it was the end of Clinton's term.

I was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal,

and President and Mrs. Clinton were making the rounds,

talking to all the awardees and their families.

He took both of my hands in his

and made me feel very comfortable.

I asked him if he would please listen,

uh, to my request to free Leonard Peltier.

It would be a... a great... mean... mean a great deal

for all Indian country.

President Clinton kind of rubbed his chin and looked at me,

and he said, "Well, if, uh, Peltier would admit his guilt,

I'd pardon him."

And that was kind of the end of the conversation,

and he moved on to someone else.

Bill Clinton used his last hours in office

to issue a flurry of presidential pardons.

More than 140 people are on the list.

One person not on the list was Native activist Leonard Peltier.

This call is from a federal prison.

Accept. Accept.

Good morning.

Good morning. How are you?

After three days full locked down...

...well, we finally got out.

I can tell it was probably a long weekend.

Well, when you're locked in a little tiny cell like that

with another person, it's very miserable.

Are you feeling okay, or you said you had medical orders?

I'm hanging in there, best I can.

Anyway, what's going on, my dear?

What time is it? Did I wake you up?

No, no, I'm in Washington, D.C.,

and we have a couple of meetings today,

an important one with the BOP.

I'll report back after that.

- Well, I hope it's a good day there. - I think it'll be--

There's too much stress going on, waiting and waiting and waiting.

I know.

You know, 'cause I need medical treatment.

Yes.

You know, the experts gotta look at the aortic aneurysm.

- Yes. - My shoulders.

I gotta fix my shoulders, my dear.

They're both bad. Trying to paint and stuff, and I can't.

Do you have an honest to God feeling that you think we're getting close?

I do, but I promised you I'd be realistic, remember?

Yup. I know. I know.

I know.

Listen, I'm a goddamn warrior. I'm not gonna give up now.

Some of the things, the narrative that we're really honing in on,

like, this is the last and only chance left for his freedom,

this would solidify Biden's legacy in a way nothing else will.

You know, since we began this,

parole has been denied, compassionate release has been denied.

This is an extraordinary opportunity for a president

who is not running for another office.

A grant of clemency wouldn't be on the table again for four years.

It would be unlikely that Leonard would survive

another four years in prison.

We've been there with past presidents before,

and it still didn't happen because of, really, the FBI.

They're dedicated to this false narrative.

Five decades later.

Yeah.

And then some of these... Most of these FBI agents were not even fucking alive

when all... all of this happened.

We have to make interventions

that hold this government accountable to our people.

We are on a continuum of 500 years of Indigenous resistance.

We're gonna keep singing,

we're gonna keep... we're gonna keep praying,

and we're gonna keep calling for Leonard's freedom!

Feels right now that clearly this is not something that Biden cares about.

It's not something that he wakes up in the morning thinking about.

We gotta figure out how to get as close to Biden as possible

and the people who are advising him to care about this.

Mm-hmm.

We've got a record number of Native American appointees

aware of Leonard's story in this administration.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is the first Native American

to serve as a member of the cabinet.

Madam Speaker, the president's cabinet.

This is the political evolution of Indian country.

And for the first time, we have an Indigenous-led team

on the clemency effort in Washington, D.C.

We knew there were opportunities to influence President Biden.

Federal Indian boarding school policy,

the pain it has caused

will always be a significant mark of shame on American history.

I have a solemn responsibility to be the first president

to formally apologize to the Native peoples.

The boarding school apology was a hugely important moment.

Leonard was a boarding school survivor.

So when that apology came, it meant maybe this will happen.

Oh, his thing's on silent.

Oh, shit.

- Is this Betty McCollum's office? - Yes.

Sorry, we will be down there in just a moment.

We're just coming over from the Ford Building.

Whose meeting with Wittman?

Lillian.

We're gonna finish with Betty and head straight to Interior.

The frickin' pivotal thing about us as a people, I think,

is that we don't have a give-up in us.

Leonard, he actually is still fighting.

- I mean, I don't think people realize... - Mm-hmm.

...he gets up every day,

and he thinks about his freedom, what's happening to Indian people,

what's happening in this world with the rise of authoritarianism.

He's still in that mindset, which I think is powerful.

He's still fighting, so we better be.

As a Lakota, we're taught in the ceremony since we were little.

If you're gonna ask the Creator for something,

you got to meet the Creator halfway.

Oh, we're here. We made it.

Welcome to the Turtle Mountain Res. Holy...

Indian Collective purchased a house for Leonard Peltier

on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in his community.

And we began to put together a reentry plan for Leonard to come home.

The west is here already.

Oh yeah.

Thank you for inviting us.

Absolutely. Thank you for all your support too.

So we're actually gonna take this paperwork.

And we'll take it to Leonard in the prison.

- Oh, okay. - And then he'll sign it.

Check out the crib.

- Is it? - Yeah.

- So this is gonna actually be his bedroom. - His bedroom.

Oh, nice.

- This is Leonard-- - This call is from a federal prison.

- Have them come in. - You will not be charged for this call.

How you doing, Leonard?

I'm doing all right.

I got lucky. I got on the phone.

Did you guys make it?

We made it. We're here... We're here... We're here in the house right now.

- House. - It's a... It's a really beautiful house.

We got you on speakerphone. Everybody can hear you.

- All right. Hello, brothers and sisters. - Hello, brother.

Hello, Leonard.

Well, I hope I can spend some time with you.

I hope I've still got a few years left.

I'm pretty excited right now and, uh,

I'm having a little problem talking but...

You sound... You sound... You sound good to us, Leonard.

I can't say thank you enough to all of yous that are doing this for me.

I try to keep myself from crying, you know, with this stuff and, uh,

but I almost couldn't hold it back this time.

We know all the... We know all the stands that you've made for our people.

This is the best... this is the least that we could do for you

is to make sure that you have a home to come back to on your homelands

like you wanted to, and the tribes here are supportive of it.

We're not... We're not stopping fighting until you're here.

I'm overwhelmed with excitement and happiness

that you guys are showing me such love, man.

The people have already named the house the Freedom House.

Seems like a fitting name.

- Right. - Feels right.

- Oh, that's it. - Oh, that's it.

His time ran out.

After the election, we were consumed by this.

How important it is that justice is finally achieved.

We're on our way to Washington, D.C. to throw down.

I handicapped it at 30-70,

30% chance we're gonna get this done.

Even that felt optimistic.

I... I spoke to Secretary Haaland,

and we had the conversation of, you know, what this meant.

And, you know, we cried,

and just recognizing this huge moment was upon us.

We left for Florida the last weekend of Biden's presidency.

On Sunday, there was a list released from the White House.

This was the list that included President Biden's family members.

And I started getting, you know, messages of condolence from folks,

like, "Oh, I'm so sorry this didn't happen."

We all got very nervous.

I was so deeply troubled that I told Leonard Peltier

that he was going to be freed and that it wasn't going to happen again.

This is Biden's last night in the White House.

They're closing everything down. This could come...

- It could come in the morning. - Yeah, I mean, at this point.

It is the United States government.

We still don't know until his name is on the list.

Starting route to Coleman Federal Correctional Complex.

Joe Biden has used his clemency authority

more than any president in American history.

Some high-profile prisoners hope he might not be finished,

but only hours remain until he leaves the White House.

Joseph R. Biden now departing the White House

for his final time as president, joined by Donald J. Trump,

who will officially become the 47th president

of the United States at twelve o'clock.

Look.

Oh my God. He's getting out.

Oh my God. He's going home.

- Oh my God! - Going home.

You may begin speaking now.

Hi, Leonard.

This is definite though, right?

It is definite. The president--

- I'm gonna start packing my stuff then. - Pack your things. You are...

Leonard... Leonard, you're for sure... you are for sure coming home.

- Cool. Cool. - Cool.

Start... Hey, start packing your stuff.

Start packing your stuff.

- Love ya. - Love you too.

- Love you, Leonard. - Love you too.

- See you in the morning. - See you in the morning.

- All right. - All right.

Bye. Bye.

Holy shit.

Cool!

- Okay, let's... - Let's go 'cause...

I think that's him right there.

Ooh.

Does it feel like home?

Um, yeah.

Yeah, no, I feel...

I feel good. I feel good.

I'm telling you.

I feel good. That's all I can say.

- Yep. - Yeah.

I can't believe it yet, really.

I can't quite either.

I know this is true, but it's really not sunk in.

We almost there?

Yes, we are one minute from the line.

- I'd rather be-- - We are one minute away.

I'm out!

I'm home!

Hi. Oh!

- Welcome home, sir. - Huh?

- Welcome home. - Okay, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Wow, man.

I know!

Leonard, welcome home!

Hello, everybody.

Hello!

How you doin'?

I'm so proud of the... the showing and support you've given me.

I want to say thank you.

Thank you very, very much for showing me this.

It was worth it for me to be able to sacrifice for you.

First went in to prison, they treated me like shit, man.

Uh, they sentenced me to a sensory-deprivation cell.

It was total darkness.

Um...

Nothing in there but a blanket.

And, uh, indefinitely.

I was supposed to die there in that cell.

But I beat 'em. I beat the bastards.

It's all right. It's cool.

- Want to see your bedroom? - Yeah.

Wow.

This is your bed right here, your bedroom.

- Like I died and went to heaven. - You got a TV in there.

Your space.

You like it?

Yeah, I love it, I love it.

Nice.

To think, 50 years in a cell, and now I get to come home to this.

- Yeah. - Wow.

Gonna sleep in that nice new bed tonight.

- Pretty cool, huh? - Very cool.

I can't believe it.

I thought I was coming to some old shack or something.

- Did you see his Air Force 1s? - Nuh-uh.

I love your Crocs.

What's a Croc?

- What's a Croc? - The slippers.

- Yeah, those are Crocs. - Oh.

And they're all the rage.

Can I ask you a question?

What's so cool about them?

- Just real comfortable. - They're very comfortable.

If you wanna go in four-wheel drive, you just kick this back there.

- They call it "sport mode." - Kick that back, yep.

- When you want to walk real fast. - There will be no sport mode.

And your job

is to tell all the women my age that I'm available.

Lord, help us.

I figured out a way To make 'em understand

Free Leonard Peltier, That's the master plan

Time to build strength With our community

But what's community Without the unity

It's up to us Meaning just you and me

Let's come together And unite in solidarity

Calling all tribes All nation, all people

If we created equal Let's stand against the evil

Of injustice, oppression

Wrongful convictions

Gotta free our people From political prisons

Liberty and freedom Is what I envision

And I'mma find a way To make the whole world listen

Every time they think I can't I find a way

Every time they think I can't I said I'm gonna find a way

Find a way to believe

Find a way to be free

Find a way to believe

Find a way to be free

One man on a mission

Wrong move I could be gone in an instant

I don't want 'em to tell me That he can't go

Too much of the story That's been untold

And I know they conquered Many kingdoms

Told lies and took away his freedom

To tell the truth I think we need a witness

Missed the hills And working on an entry

How it's been 40 years Sitting in prison

Yearscleared getting a victim Oh yeah

Sole reason That they pointed the finger

It carries on generational anger

Every time they think I can't I find a way

Every time they think I can't I said I'm gonna find a way

Find a way to believe

Find a way to be free

Find a way to believe

Find a way to be free

He fought for knowledge, wisdom Understanding, freedom

Justice, equality Food, clothing, shelter

He fought for knowledge, wisdom Understanding, freedom

Justice, equality Food, clothing, shelter

He fought for knowledge, wisdom Understanding, freedom

Justice, equality Food, clothing, shelter

He fought for knowledge, wisdom Understanding, freedom

Justice, equality Food, clothing, shelter

Wisdom

Justice

Equality for all

Wisdom

Justice

Equality for all

He gave us

Wisdom

Justice

Equality for all