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Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. It is a frequent allegation that has relied on weak evidence and the charges of paid federal informants. In this episode, TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes look at several sources of information from key Indigenous activists who knew Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash to the FBI’s own knowledge of her murder at the time it happened and federal prosecutors’ initial hesitancy to take up the case.
—— Below is the text of Hank Adams’ 2020 Facebook post, shortly before his passing:
Note: Adams is responding to a 2016 APTN article in which Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde apologizes to Anna Mae Aquash’s family.
December 14, 2020
Intellectually dishonest hate-monger Paul DeMain has reignited his campaign to assure denial of any Executive Clemency to LEONARD PELTIER, 76, at any time before Leonard’s next scheduled Parole Hearing in Year 2024 with a continued misuse and abuse of the December 1975 gunshot death of ANNA MAE AQUASH and the unconscionable exploitation of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash’s children.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde makes significant points in this 2016 article in which the 1975 Aquash death became the center point in President Barack Obama’s decision to deny Clemency to Peltier:
“I regret that my statement caused some hurt and pain and I apologize for the pain I caused her [Denise Maloney Pictou] and her family,” said Bellegarde. “That wasn’t my intent.”
Bellegarde said he still would like to see Peltier freed. He said the case is a separate issue from AIM’s execution of Aquash.
“I called for that (Peltier’s release) because there is an injustice there,” said Bellegarde. “So I will continue to advocate for that.”
Bellegarde said two previous AFN national chiefs have made the same call which is also backed by Amnesty International and prominent individuals like the Dalai Lama.
Peltier was extradited from Canada to the U.S. in December 1976. Warren Allmand, Canada’s solicitor general at the time of Peltier’s extradition, has since stated the F.B.I submitted false information to have Peltier extradited.”
DeMain’s posting of Aquash daughter Denise Maloney Pictou’s December 12, 2020, renewed accusations against Leonard Peltier and DeMain’s hated AIM organization [re-Posted here in Comment 1] are the beginning of a campaign to assure that 2020 President-Elect Joe Biden will not grant Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier. Indians of Western Washington who transported Leonard Peltier to Canada on or about November 17, 1975, and Indians of British Columbia who hosted and concealed him for the next month or until beyond when the FBI first was informed of Anna Mae’s death and the identity of her killers can attest to Leonard’s movements and communications (record) that wholly absolve Leonard Peltier of any direct or indirect role in the December 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash.
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greetings everyone this is Nick Estus uh here today with a special episode on the
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case of Leonard peler his continued imprisonment he’s going on 49 years or
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almost half a century of being imprisoned uh for a crime uh that he
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claims you know he’s maintained his innocence since the day that he was incarcerated um but I I wanted on you
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know in honor of his birthday this his birthday week that we’re recording this I wanted to sort of go over some facts
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of his case um and talk a little bit more in detail about some of the sort of myths uh and misinformation that exists
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out there and specifically I want to talk about my own personal role in the Leonard paltier campaign but also
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confronting certain questions that I’ve had over the years uh in supporting him but also questions that have been posed
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To Me by other activists and so this one this one is kind of a doozy it’s a very
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fact heavy case I’m going to be referencing several key documents some of which I’m going to be reading in
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whole just so that we can get a better understanding of the case and I also recommend that viewers and listeners uh
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check out our archive on Leonard pelter we’ve done lots of interviews so I’m going to be referencing some of that we
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also you know put in a link um to an article that I wrote for Jacobin um
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which lays out the details of the case kind of very fact-based uh details timeline of events just so that you
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understand because we’re coming up on the tail end of the last you know remaining months of the Biden presidency
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and typically at the end of a presidency you know um clemency pardons are granted
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um to to folks um Biden has claimed that he would not be beholden to the sort of
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like timeline of granting sort of he would be doing like rolling pardons in clemencies which we haven’t really seen
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so we’re expecting uh sort of an increase um now that he is no longer the Democratic uh nominee and he you know
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this is the the last you know last couple months of his his four-year presidency but I want to give some
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contextual background but then also think about this larger question of the
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the FBI and the sort of States narrative that tie not only Leonard Peltier to the
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killing of these two FBI agents but also attempts that have been made within the
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last three decades to link him to the murder of his friend and fellow comrade
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in arms so to speak anime aquash or anime piku aquash so I first got involved in the
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campaign to free Leonard peler in 2013 at the time the international
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Leonard peler defense committee was headquartered in Albuquerque New Mexico where I was going to graduate school
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it’s also around this time that we founded uh the Red Nation almost 10 years ago that was in November of
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2014 there were annual demonstrations for peler Freedom at the Federal Courthouse H as the administration of
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Barack Obama wound down the push for a presidential clemency increased and to
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top it off the water protector movement at Standing Rock against the construction of the Dakota access
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pipeline presented a rare opportunity to discuss peltier’s case with a national
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audience and how it impacted American Indian rights in the United States I
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can’t recall a time before 2016 having an international platform and a receptive audience to what are mostly
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marginalized and easily dismissed quote unquote indigenous stories in the
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corporate press the clemency campaign was invigorating to say the least it
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connected the experiences of water protectors at Standing Rock to the previous generation of red Power
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activists many of whom by then Elders also made pilgrimages to the oete shako
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camps at the Confluence of The Cannonball and Missouri Rivers there were also parallels with how the
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police responded to the water protectors as they did to the red Power movement in
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particular the Swift and violent Crackdown against water protectors created a new generation of indigenous
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political prisoners opening the eyes of many across the world to the reality
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that the Indian Wars and and American Indian people in general were not some ancient re relics of a lamentable and
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tragic past those struggles were and are very much animating our present
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realities Leonard peltier’s case and continued persecution epitomize that
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truth after I left the Standing Rock camps for the last time in late November I went to Washington DC to petition
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members of Congress for Leonard peltier’s release on the morning of December 9th I awoke to the tragic news
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of peler son waha chanka Paul shields uh had passed away in the hotel
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room next to me he died fighting for the freedom of a father whom he came to know
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only through the walls of a prison waha as as he was called Wah’s
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death however didn’t elicit sympathy from the very people with the power to
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release his father the reactions to our lobbying efforts were cold fear had
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gripped our supposed El elected Congressional allies as the presidency
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of Donald Trump loomed large how cruel I thought native faces are great for photo ops and trotting us out
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every four years for a presidential election but they couldn’t see us as we stood before them in those final months
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or those final days of December the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier represents the
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international struggle of many indigenous and non-indigenous families who have been torn a pirate by regimes
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of mass incarceration peler himself was stolen away as a child and for fored to attend boarding school and from him were
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stripped his culture his language and his own familial connections to his
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relatives including his parents like the administrators or excuse me like the administrations
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preceding him and the only one that came and the one that came after him Obama and his ruling party were unwilling and
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unable to break the that intergenerational cycle of violence against our relatives by refusing to
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grant clemency or Justice to Leonard Peltier and nearly half a century of
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international support for his freedom has come from all Corners including renowned international human rights
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activists heads of state and even former Federal prosecutors who were responsible
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for putting and keeping Leonard peler in jail as well as an FBI agent close to
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his case uh and of course the most vociferous supporters are native people
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themselves go to pin Ridge reservation the o who were alive during the shootout
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that left two FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Kohler and one aim activist Joe
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stunts dead remember those days of Terror as if they happened last week the
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collective punishment of the American Indian movement by the FBI the Bureau of Indian Affairs police and a vigilante
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goon squad backed by an authoritarian tribal president created a toxic atmosphere of violence on the
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reservation a US Civil Rights report called the bloody backlash following the 71 day liberation of wounded in 1973 by
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aim and oglalas a quote unquote reign of terror beatings rapes and killings of
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aim members and their supporters went unresolved the FBI charged with
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investigating Major Crimes on the reservation had hundreds of agents in and out of the reservation during this
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period more so than before the escalation of political violence yet as
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is made clear by the many independent investigations by civil and human rights experts the FBI’s increased presence on
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the reservation did not curtail violence rather the FBI’s actions
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inflamed the Violence by serving more as a political police force staying true to
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their Origins as an organization tasked with crushing communist movements in the
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first half of the 20th century and radical groups like the Black Panthers Cho organizations and the American
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Indian movements in the latter half of the 20th century this flies in the face
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of the FBI’s own mythology that you know are perpetuated in Hollywood movies like
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The Killers of the flower moon or others that you know put the FBI as sort of Saviors of native people um and it’s
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also why a all-white jury concluded or excuse me that’s a why an all-white jury
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concluded when it found Leonard peltier’s codefendants Bob rubido and Dino Butler not guilty
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for reasons of self-defense in the killing of the FBI agents on in June of
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1975 they considered the prevailing factors in atmosphere of violence that
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led up to that particular shootout Federal investigators have never probed the murder of Joe stunts
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who also died that day nor buddy Lamont or Frank Clearwater who were also killed
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by federal bullets during wounded KNE or the other reported deaths of American
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Indians who were killed during the reign of terror so with the
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support from generations of legal and human rights experts who have noted the discrepancies in Leonard peltier’s case
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why is he still in prison you know during my own uh you know work on Leonard peltier’s clemency campaign I
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encountered firsthand the widespread efforts to keep him in prison retired FBI agent Colleen Rowley summarized It
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Best in her 2022 letter to Joe Biden calling for peltier’s clemency she
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writes retribution seems to have emerged as the primary if not sole reason for
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continuing what looks like from the outside to have become an emotion-driven
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quote unquote FBI family Vendetta here she refers to a line in
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FBI director Chris Ray’s letter on behalf of retired FBI agents whom he called quote the entire FBI family
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family Rey invoked that exact phrase in his letter to Bureau of Prisons for peltier’s parole heing hearing last June
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who he called a quote unquote ruthless murderer who who has demonstrated an
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utter lack of remorse for his many crimes and quote accompanying Ray’s letter was another accusation made by
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South Dakota attorney general Marty jackley in his letter arguing against peltier’s parole jackley cites testimony
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from kamuk Nichols who it was later revealed worked as a paid government informant and Who quote
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implicated Peltier in ordering the murder of anime piku Akash as well so
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Not only was his refusal to claim you
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know any sort of role in killing of these two FBI agents grounds for keeping
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him in prison as a quote unquote you know remorseless killer but also he’s being Tied by the Attorney General of
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South Dakota to the killing of anime aquash and I think this is important
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because this is something that I have personally encountered as somebody who’s advocated for Leonard peltier’s clemency
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and release and even talking about this case um so I want to get into a little bit of this history because it’s
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important to understand you know why how we got to this point to this day and
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also just as a personal kind of aside when I started working on this campaign this is one thing that was brought up
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endlessly that you know Leonard Peltier was a killer of a native woman how could I as a you know a native person who
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claims to be advocating for you know native and Indigenous feminisms support
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somebody who was essentially a perpetrator of violence against native women and that was something that I took
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you know to heart and I was like well I’m going to do an investigation I’m going to do my own investigation I’m
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going to you know look at the facts of this particular case what do I know what do I think I know and what exists out
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there and this podcast episode is sort of an attempt to sort of just
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show what I’ve gathered over 10 years of just researching this particular case
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and this is just a fraction of the of the documents that exist and I’m going to read these because I think you know
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somebody as a historian I think it’s important to stay true to our sources but it’s also important to sort of sit
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back and reflect on this kind of long period of violence um that was directed against not only you know incarcerating
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Leonard Peltier that spilled over into you know this intergenerational battle by his own family this broken apart his
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own family his son literally died you know trying to get him out of prison but to try to understand why is there this
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you know retribution against the American Indian movement but also why
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keep Leonard Peltier in prison after everything that has been done so just to
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give you some background four homicide cases from 2004 to 2010 revealed details
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of the 1975 killing of anime Pik to aquash who was then 30 and also a prominent member
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of the American Indian movement according to the states theory of the case ther Rose Nelson Clark who was 51
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at the time accused aquash of being a government informant that was a year prior in 1974 the first accusation
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according to the testimony that has been gathered the interviews that have been published with people who witnessed this
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the first person to make this public accusation was Theta Rose Nelson Clark
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at a gathering in Farmington in 1974 so with two young men John Graham
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and Arlo looken Cloud both of whom were 20 21 years old at the time Clark took
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aquash from Denver Colorado to South Dakota in late November 1975 where on ‘s order aquash was D was
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murdered days later in April 28th 1976 FBI teletype
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reveals that the Denver FBI had learned about aquash is killing from a Denver
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informant on December 19th 1975 that’s
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literally like almost a week after in the in the state’s timeline of
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events that she was murdered so the Denver FBI informant told the FBI that
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she was murdered by quote three Indian members of aim all of Denver Colorado
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identified as redacted comma redacted comma and redacted and
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quote despite this knowledge of her murder Awash his body wasn’t found until February 24th
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1976 an autopsy the following day in Pine Ridge didn’t identify her or
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discover that she had been shot in the head but ruled she died of exposure aquash was buried on March 2nd
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1976 and her amputated hands were sent to an FBI crime lab in Washington DC
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where her fingerprints were identified on March 3D at the behest of her family
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and lawyers working for the American India movement a second autopsy wasth
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authorized finding a bullet near her left temple
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so just to kind of play this back a little bit for those of you who might have missed some of these key
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details she was taken from Colorado to South Dakota the end of November and
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according to the states theory of the case when she was there in Rapid City and then later you know went to I think
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they say they claimed that she went to the Pine rid Indian Reservation she you know she was
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murdered at the hands of these three individuals who were named a week after
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this murder allegedly took place according to this timeline an FBI
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informant in Denver told the Denver
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FBI who had killed her why they had killed her where they
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had killed her and all relevant information related to
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that murder but nonetheless like even after she was
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identified in in March of March 3rd 1976 months
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later the FBI within their teletypes and within their memorandum still referred
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to her as anime Awash AKA deceased victim CRI crime on Indian
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Reservation but that was the heading but then later in the lead paragraph it
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described her as a quote unquote unidentified Indian female so even after she had been identified she was still
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referred to as an unidentified Indian female email other references even in
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the the April teletype that I I I previously cited in
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1976 it also identified her VAR you know in various ways as unidentified female
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unidentified girl unidentified female Indian and quote unquote unidentified
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victim the Denver FBI office however still hadn’t verified the validity of
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the the informants you know December 1974 5 report although he knew of aquash
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is murder from someone with direct knowledge so this raises a whole lot of
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questions right and to kind of put this into a broader you know framework I’m going to read another I’m going to read
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um specifically from a letter I’m going to read the whole thing because I think it’s important to have this you know
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this letter read and this comes from Hank Adams and for those of you that don’t know Hank Adams we did a memorial
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episode on him he died you know several years ago in 2020 um and he this is a a
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Facebook post that he wrote uh on December 14th 2020 it was like maybe a
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couple weeks before he had passed away um and it was sort of a last willing Testament of Hank Adams and Hank Adams
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if you don’t know who he is he was a preeminent like red Power activist he was Red Power before aim was Red Power
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he went to uh the march on you know Washington um with the Poor People’s
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campaign under you know Martin Luther King Jr he had led a a draft resistance
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for native people in uh North in the Northwest um for people to Native people
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to burn their draft cards to refuse to participate in the US’s Imperial war in
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Vietnam he was never a member of the American Indian movement and in fact he started an organization called survival
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of American Indians that was in some in some ways very critical of a lot of aed’s tactics but nonetheless he was the
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author of the 1972 document the trail of broken treaties which articulated a
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treaty platform for a new relationship between the United States government and American Indian nations that was
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premised on the principles of sovereignty and nation-to-nation relations that would restart a treaty
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making process uh this became the foundational document for the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous
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peoples Hank Adams himself later went on to be critical of uh a lot of members of
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aim for their tactics you know not only those that were perceived as violent but others you their kind of their kind of
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policy on on uh their relations with you know um third world Nations I don’t have
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that’s a whole another episode but suffice it to say is this man was around he lived this history he had
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encyclopedic knowledge of these movements and himself was you know I wouldn’t say he was objective but he
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wasn’t like he wasn’t a sort of aim acolyte right he was somebody who was
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who operated within that context at that particular time but he wasn’t necessarily somebody who would go out
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and just defend aim at the at the drop of the hat and in many ways he criticized a lot of aim A’s tactics and
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also he criticized a lot of people that aim recruited aim recruited a lot of pretendian you know and that’s a whole
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again this is a whole another story but I’m just trying to give this background on on who he is and like why this kind
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of last one of his you know final posts on Facebook is so important and so critical to this particular case and I
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don’t have I don’t have time to get into every claim that he makes in this particular podcast it’s something that I
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do want to continue in a you know other in a future podcast to kind of break apart some of these claims so that we
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get a thorough understanding of this particular timeline in this particular history so he’s writing you know he’s
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he’s responding in on December 4th or excuse me December 14th uh
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2020 and this is a response to a 2016 APN article which is a native news
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source in Canada in which assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellard
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apologizes to anime Awash his family for the afn the Assembly of First Nations
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kind of backing historically um a Clemen or retrial for Leonard Peltier and this is relevant
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actually this day because um just before um you know around around the
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time that you know Leonard peltier’s parole uh you know the the ruling came down on his parole which you know was
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denied the Assembly of First Nations actually rescinded its support entirely um this last July uh for Leonard peler
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over this these reasons that I’m going to get into right now so this is this is relevant and he kind of called it out at
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this particular time kind of anticipating this backlash that was going to happen under Joe Biden’s
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presidency so he writes intellectually dishonest hate Monger Paul demain who is
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a native journalist who kind of broke this this story back in the in the 1990s
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has reignited his campaign to assure denial of an any executive clemency to
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Leonard paltier who 76 at any time before Leonard’s next
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scheduled parole hearing hearing in year 2024 which just happened with a
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continued misuse and abuse of the December 1975 gunshot death of anime
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piku Awash and the unconscionable exploitation of anime piku Awash is
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children assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry bagard makes the
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significant points in this 2016 article in which the 1975 aquash death became
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the center point in President Barack Obama’s dis decision to deny clemency to
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peler quote I regret that my statement caused some hurt and pain and I
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apologize for the pain I caused her Denise Maloney piku
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and her family said bagard that wasn’t my intent and Denise Maloney piku is
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enemy’s daughter bellgard said he still would like to see Peltier freed he said
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the case is a separate issue from am’s execution of aquash quote I called for
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that peltier’s release because there’s an injustice there said belard so I will
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continue to advocate for that end quote bagard said two previous afn
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National Chiefs had made the same call which is also backed by Amnesty International and prominent individuals
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like the dolly Lama this is this is um Hank Adams words
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Peltier was EXT extradited from Canada in the to the United States in December
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of 1976 Warren Almont Canada’s solicitor general at the time of peltier’s
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extradition has since stated the FBI submitted false information to have peler
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extradited domain’s posting of aquash uh aquash daughter Denise Maloney pik’s
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December 12th 2020 renewed accusations against Leonard Peltier and domains
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hated aim organization are the beginning of a campaign to assure that 2020
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president-elect Joe Biden will not Grant executive clemency to Leonard
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Peltier in death and posthumously anime had been made a sainted
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heroin but between 1972 and November 14th
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1975 anime’s ways were am’s ways am’s ways good and bad were without
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qualification or reservation anim Ways by choice at NCI the National Congress
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of American Indian meeting in November 1975 American Indian press
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Association Richard lorse told me of his meeting with Dennis Banks Leonard
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Peltier kamuk Banks and Anime just before his coming to Portland for NCI
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nmia then had indicated no distress nor given any indication that she was
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being held prisoner or against her will on November 14th
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1975 the four aim leaders quote unquote only broke apart because of an Ontario
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Oregon stopping of their recreational vehicle by armed Oregon police a couple days later Leonard paler
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was transported through Frank’s Landing which at that time was kind of a historic site for the the the Fishin uh
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in the 1960s and 1970s from Portland in British Columbia
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by Associates of mine Associates of Hank Adams who did not inform me then of
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their activity that’s we found out I found out later um in Washington DC that
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this was Ramona Peterson who was a uh you know an activist at that particular
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time she was the one who actually helped transport um
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uh peler cross the from the US um to the Canadian side um so she she helped him
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cross the border essentially so she was with him at that time and that’s important because according to the
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states theory of the case you know he was giving orders to basically have
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enemy Awash assassinated and accusing her of an F you know being an FBI informant Etc but how could he when he
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was like literally in in communicado with um these ass assciates of Hank Adams that’s the point he’s trying to
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make here so to continue on quote he spent the next month in the local he was
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taken to and remained in communicado with us colleagues until later at least
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until he traveled to small boys camp in Alberta Canada that is where the RCMP and FBI
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picked up Leonard long after anime Awash his death in the second week of December of
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1975 memorandum in the FBI’s Denver office dated as early as December 18
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1975 which I just quoted disclose anime aquash had been killed although the FBI
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would Fain ignorance of the death and the corpse I The Corpse’s identity for more than the for more than the next
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three months the December 1975 memos identified The Killers as quote John Boy
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Graham Arlo looking cloud and Theta Nelson Clark although none of the three
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were indicted through the next 28 years years and in fact as a side note Theta
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Nelson Clark never stood trial and never you know was never formally you know
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charged with these murders to continue on with Adam’s post the looking Cloud
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trial was held in December of 2004 grams in 2010 lapses of 29 and 35 years
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respectively Theta Nelson a likely FBI informant in December of 1975 on mental
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competency findings did not go to trial Clark died at age 87 in
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2011 that’s a huge Claim by the way something I don’t really have have time to get into here maybe in a in a future
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um podcast episode I’ll do that or maybe I can post some links um to some other
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audio that have been done by people who’ve actually researched that particular claim to continue on although a lead
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prosecutor opened the Leonard pelo trial in Fargo North Dakota on March 16th 1977 declaring quote unquote aim is
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not on trial both aim and Leonard Peltier were made the main defendants in the 2004 and
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2010 trials for the killing of animy Awash if there was ever a case where all
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parties prosecution defense and all Witnesses acted in Friendly collusion to
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convict undefended and absent non-parties first Leonard Peltier second the
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American Indian movement the looking cloud and Graham trials were such cases
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the fod for the trials conspiratorial clap trap largely was rung from the
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minds and Imagination of Paul domain in his Relentless Vendetta against aim
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leaders and most creatively against Leonard Peltier here’s Paul demain in his own
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words in 2011 at the Native American journalist Association he gives
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uncritical praise to government informants infiltrating and disrupting indigenous movements calling them
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Heroes I think our neighborhood snitch is what everyone needs and we need to
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support him that’s the grandmother that calls up and says my uncle is raping my
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granddaughter and tells on and it’s the person that calls in and says there’s a crack house over here that are killing
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our kids okay we need snitches and rats and
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they’re my heroes many of his unsubstantiated claims were rejected by author Steven
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Hendrix when writing his 2007 book The unquiet Grave domain timelines for anime Pik 2
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aquash have since focused on the aim convention in New Mexico the one I just mentioned just prior to the jumping B
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jumping blll compound deaths of FBI agents on Pine Ridge on June 26
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1975 leading to to the 1977 life sentences life sentence convictions of
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Peltier the design is intended to Prejudice consider considerations against Any Grant of parole of clemency
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for Peltier Canada’s assembly of First Nations is correct in declaring the execution of animy aash and the pursuit
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of freedom for Leonard peler on compassionate and humanitary grounds as separate issues they are correct in
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continuing their support for executive clemency through both offices of both
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the Canadian ping Minister and the US president which of course they’ve just
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rescinded as I mentioned earlier and continuing with what satisfaction can
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president-elect Biden derive from sidest stepping all humanitarian and compassionate considerations for Leonard
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Peltier through a first term deferring any favorable consideration to the scheduled parole Hearing in
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2024 which Peltier was denied the pardon’s office of a bureaucratic
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and Prejudice justice department housing the FBI has already failed the last four presidents of the United States in this
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matter will retribution finally end if Leonard Peltier is still alive in 2024
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and then 80 years old Indians of Western Washington who transported Leonard Peltier to Canada honor about November
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17th 1975 and Indians of British Colombia who hosted and concealed him for the next
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month or until Beyond when the FBI was first informed of anime Awash is death
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and the identity of her Killers can attest to Leonard peltier’s movements and
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Communications that wholly absolve Leonard Peltier of any direct or indirect role in the December 1975
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murder of anime pik2 Awash so there’s a lot there maybe what
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I’ll do is I’ll just have um the our producer Cena post this in the episode description so can read for yourself his
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exact words um he’s somebody again he’s somebody who knew these people at this
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particular time and there’s a lot of inside knowledge there’s a lot to unpack there but I wanted to just sort of
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present that you know as one sort of um one sort of piece of evidence and I want to um lastly I just want
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to I just want to um just read one last quote and this is
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from an August 1998 letter from uh the Department of
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Justice uh this is from Karen e shrier who was the US attorney uh for district
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of sou uh us attorney for district of South Dakota at the time and she’s writing the chief Deputy uh district
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attorney in the Second Judicial Circuit uh Robert J Whitley to sort of describe
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the reasons why she’s declining to prosecute uh or to uh you know continue
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forward with the the charging out of these particular individuals who were accused of murdering enemy aquash and
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it’s quite interesting um I don’t have time to get into everything she makes this argument about whether uh you know
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Indians because you know John Graham was technically considered an Indian of Canada so two was anime aquash they
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weren’t you know American Indians federally recognized in that sense so this kind of question about jurisdiction
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was one of the reasons but towards the end of the uh she makes an interesting claim and I’ll just read
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it another potential downside to Federal prosecution of the case is that it may
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be seen as a coverup over the years numerous
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individuals have alleged that the victim enemy aquash was either killed by the
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FBI or was or was it killed as a result of FBI
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actions prosecution of members of the American Indian movement for the homicide could be seen as an effort on
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the part of the federal government to hide the role of the FBI in in aquash is
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death this is this is an admission by the doj that there are these you know
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these uh this perception out there that eneme aash you know that or at least the
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FBI had some role in her murder and as we know now based on the you know the
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the documents that I just cited from the FBI informant knowing in December 19 you know December of 1975 that she had been
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killed who had killed her um and where she was killed and by whom she was killed they did have direct
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knowledge of her murder uh but didn’t do anything about it and didn’t you know
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really charge anyone out until uh you know as as Hank Adams points out until almost 30 years later three decades
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later so what happened in that interim and I want to just point out you know like I’m not throwing around accusations
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I’m just asking questions based on the documents based on the sources that I’ve obtained and I don’t want to throw
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anyone under the rug in terms of saying that the feelings of her own family
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aren’t valid in the sense of wanting Justice for for their mother for their sister that was taken from them like I
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think that’s a totally valid concern and I think you know we we are all seeking you know Justice for not only nma aquash
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but the dozens of people who were also murdered during this reign of terror and those who are still in prison uh paying
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the consequences for the FBI’s refusal to release more
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information about what it knew and why it hasn’t released that information to the general public right so these are
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just these are I know this is there’s a lot to take in this for in my you know
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personal sort of experience this has created a lot of you know um
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perspectives of my own of like thinking about when we go out and we hear a certain narrative about uh especially
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about Leonard paler uh and it’s not to say that Leonard pel is not a human being and that he did you know he may
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have had bad relations with women he may have you know done things that we may
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not agree with at a particular point in time but he’s not guilty of the things that he’s being accused of and it’s
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wrong to promote a narrative that is being you know even refuted by
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the doj in 1998 or that has been sort of debunked
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by the FBI’s own admission that they knew who killed anime aquash in
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1975 or that by this other sort of uh you know Revelation that potentially one
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of the killers was an FBI informant and that another FBI informant in Denver had
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reported on another FBI informant and it raises the other questions
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around how has the FBI actually changed how has it reformed itself since you
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know the death of jod goo in 1972 when it came under New Direction of
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you know Clarence Kelly uh or and web William Webster but then also how people
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like James Whitey bulgar you know who we know from uh you know who who was an FBI
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informant or Greg Scarpa senior were recruited as top Echelon criminal informant for the FBI yet continued
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killing people this was you know well into the 90s that this was
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happening it’s not that the sort of aim period of the FBI was somehow
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exceptional to the practices of the FBI in other parts or that with the death of
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Hoover that the FBI you know could sort of regain its
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legitimacy uh as a crime fighting organization um but as you know a 2004
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report by the House of Representatives finally discovered that FBI quote
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decided to use murderers as informants in the 1960s known killers were protected from
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the consequences of their crime and purposely kept on the streets end quote
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and we can see that in the examples of Whitey Bulger um and you know uh Greg
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Scarpa senior so we know that the death of
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anime aquash involved at least one FBI Informer informant the man who told the Denver
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FBI that aquash had been murdered his name you know has been
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known um to Denver activists for quite some time just based on sort of process
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of elimination uh but you know there’s also this other inconvenience
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question about there’s no statute of limitations on murder or you know conspiracy to murder and so is this an
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attempt to cover up and to hide um things that the FBI had knew you
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know it’s keeping secrets for a reason it’s not just keeping secrets for uh you know domestic security and all these
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other things we can see that even just by what we know in terms of what was revealed through Foya documents what was
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experienced firsthand U by a lot of native women who were used and abused by the FBI one of whom was Myrtle porar who
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was Co coerced somebody who suffered um mental health issues um and
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developmental issues was coerced by the FBI to give false testimony they they
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threatened to take away her children she gave false testimony against dick Marshall and the murder of um of a man
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named mono uh in you know um during that time but then also she was fored to give
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false testimony against Leonard peler which those affidavits claimed that she was not only
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was she the girlfriend of Leonard peler at that time but also that she had witnessed the shooting and that he was
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the one who killed uh these two FBI agents that was used in the application to extradite him from Canada so when we
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think about this question of murdered missing indigenous women and I think there’s been a lot of internal movement
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reflection around uh the role of patriarchy and violence against women
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and how that should you know that’s a we have we should have zero tolerance for that and a lot of that comes from the red Power movement you know and like
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rightfully so but why is it the organization that’s perpetrating the
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violence against everyone and specifically targeting native women and Native children threatening to take
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children away from native women if they don’t cooperate threatening to even kill
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uh anime aquash according to her own testimony she was threatened um to be killed if she didn’t inform on her her
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comrades at the time this is something she said that agent price directly said to her you know remember Hank Adam said
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a you know anime’s ways were A’s ways for Better or For Worse she was committed uh to that particular struggle
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at that particular time so why is it that we have this phenomenon that’s
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called murdered missing indigenous women and we don’t look at the very law enforcement agency
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that has not not only neglected investigating because they’re charged
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with investigating these murders and these abuses against women on Indian reservations but perhaps was
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perpetrating violence against native women at the same time so this is the you know I this is I
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want to end it kind of right there um to sort of reflect on why is it that
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Leonard peltier’s Freedom poses such a threat to the FBI’s Narrative of
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itself um and this partic and it its responsibilities and its roles in this particular moment in time but also what
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is the political uh purpose of keeping somebody like Leonard Peltier behind
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bars I would argue um I would sort of editorialize to say that it’s because
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they want to imprison and keep our own history forbidden from us much like they
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keep these Secrets uh from us for a long time and have created this really
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Fantastical narrative around aim leaders creating a conspiracy to murder one of
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their own when in fact I’m not saying that a a members didn’t have a role or hand in her murder I’m not claiming that
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at all um the sources say that the FBI Knew by their own
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admission what had happened but the the scrutiny has never fallen on them to
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sort of answer for these deeds and I think we’ve seen plenty of books like I you know Steve Hendrick books is as
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pretty scathing when it comes to holding the American Indian movement accountable for a potentially you know its
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involvement or its alleged involvement in killing one of its own but also you know this these other sort of cases that
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have happened and not being forthright but that same scrutiny and that same sort of uh you know St those
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standards have not been held to the FBI and in fact it’s continuing as we saw
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with Standing Rock continuing to infiltrate movements with their informant and continuing to use uh
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Native people and kinship ties to create chaos Division and paranoia within
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social movements um so that has not ended whatsoever um and I just want to
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end it there and I’ll I hopefully you know if you’re if you’re a f a fan of the show write us subscribe to patreon
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send us a message on patreon uh if you have questions about this particular case I’m going to try to create a
45:32
resource link so that we can refer to it I also want to bring on some people uh maybe have some interviews with people
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who are actually there during this time period who had witnessed these these events that had happened around the killing of anime aquash but also the
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continued incarceration of you know Leonard paler and the persecution of the American Indian movement uh and again
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this is not something to like absolve uh aim you know it’s not an attempt it’s not you know I’m not you know I’m not
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trying to come out here and say that they’re a you know Angels like they they were very much products of History right
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um they were engaged in a in a Liberation struggle they saw themselves as engaged in a National Liberation
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struggle that sometimes entailed the use of violence you know whether you agree
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with that or not that’s those are the facts and that’s what Hank Adams is saying in this particular piece um so we
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have to we as much as we have to be honest about the role of the FBA we also have to be honest about the the American
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Indian movement and what they hoped to accomplish at that time and the tactics they use but it’s also to say you know I would say just as a caution the aim
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wasn’t just about violence there were so many other things um that they were doing at this particular moment in time
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they had created survival schools they were creating Community empowerment at a local level but for whatever reason we
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reduce that history to these particular cases of violence whether it’s the shootout in
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1975 uh Wounded Knee which were all incredibly important for many reasons the killing of anime aquash but we don’t
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remember the sort of quote unquote nameless Heroes of aim those who have been killed whose deaths didn’t get the
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same attention um and didn’t get the same sort of scrutiny as I believe you know animy
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aquash is right rightfully God in that in that sense um but it also collapses
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everything that they did into these moments of violence and not really understanding the impact of why the
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United not just the United States but the FBI would want to create this Narrative of aim as sort of remorseless
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killers that need to be imprisoned like the history there’s nothing honorable to recover it’s because for them you know
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even though they we are the minority of minorities they spent so much time and energy to crush that movement but they
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weren’t able to it continued on well into the 1980s you know um it splintered
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a lot in the 9s but there’s still a legacy of the American Indian movement and in fact in Pine Ridge you know
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there’s a national holiday on on February 27th 197 or February 27th every
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February 27th is called Liberation day for the liberation of wounded KNE and remembrance of the Warriors who fought
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and died uh and also the independent ogalala nation and the hopes and dreams not just of L Lota people the oglalas
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but also indigenous people and people uh worldwide who are fighting um for
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liberation
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“I Am Finally Free!”: Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrIAyUgHaf0)
We speak with NDN Collective founder and CEO Nick Tilsen, who was with Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier as he was released from a federal prison in Florida Monday after nearly half a century behind bars, and returned home with him to North Dakota. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers, and many activists have noted inconsistencies in his trial. In the final days of his presidency, former President Joe Biden granted Peltier clemency, commuting his life sentence. Peltier will remain on house arrest in the Turtle Mountain community in North Dakota. “Today I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me but they never took my spirit!” Peltier told supporters once he was released. “Thank you to all my supporters throughout the world who fought for my freedom.” Tilsen said it was “absolute pure joy” seeing him out of prison. “The release of Leonard Peltier is something that touches all of us, because all of us see a little bit of ourselves in Leonard Peltier.”
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this is democracy Now democracynow.org
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The War and Peace report and we turn now
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to an issue and a story we’ve been
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covering for all 29 years we turn to
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Leonard
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Peltier today I am finally free they may
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have imprisoned me but they never took
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my spirit
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those were the words of Leonard Peltier
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the longtime political prisoner and
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Indigenous activist who’s been released
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from prison after spending nearly half a
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century behind bars for a crime he says
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he did not commit on Tuesday Morning
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Leonard peler walked out of a federal
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prison in Florida a month after
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President Biden granted him clemency the
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80-year-old Peltier will now serve the
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remainder of his life sentence in home
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confinement for decades he’s maintained
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his innocence over the 1975 killing of
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two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine
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Ridge reservation in South Dakota on
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Tuesday Leonard Peltier briefly spoke
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after his release you have to listen
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carefully there are a lot of
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voices we are not going to give up to
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win we’ve been winning we’re going to
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continue to win we’re going to we’re
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going to stick together we’re going to
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unite
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as it is right now we’ve been United all
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through indigenous countries and uh
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we’re going to we’re going to fight back
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we’re going we’re going to continue
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until we are a free Nation I gave 50
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years for that you know and I’m going to
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give the rest of my life so they haven’t
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broke they have not broke me I have not
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broken after Leonard Peltier was
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released from the Coleman prison in
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Florida he flew back to North Dakota
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where he’ll live on the tribal homelands
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of the turtle Mountain band of chipa
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Indians supporters greeted him as he
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landed in North
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[Applause]
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Dakota supporters of Leonard Peltier
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also gathered in Florida Tuesday morning
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to greet him after his release this is
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tracker Gina Marie rangle
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kenon so our relative Leonard paler has
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been incarcerated for 50 years in a
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Draconian system and uh I am from
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Arizona we are First Nation people and
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we are here to witness this as our
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relative walks out this is the most
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important day because not only does it
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stand for the indigenous First Nation
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people here on Turtle Island but it also
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stands for people internationally this
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represents his incarceration represented
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not only other political prisoners but
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people who stand for in solidarity for
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all humankind and Humanity we go now to
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bellt North Dakota where we’re joined by
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Nick Tilson founder and CEO of ndn
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collective which helped lead the push to
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free Leonard Peltier he accompanied
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Leonard home on Tuesday Nick is a
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citizen of the ogala Lota Nation Nick
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it’s great to have you back on with us
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can you describe the moment as we look
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at that picture for the first time you
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have Leonard peler in a traditional
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Native ribbon shirt uh coming out of
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prison where were you what did Leonard
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say and describe the whole scene back
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home Leonard paler walked out of the
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front doors of Coleman
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prison energetic and completely
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dignified when he walked out he shook
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the hands of all the Corrections
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Officers and all of them were happy to
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see him going
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they were they had deep respect for him
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and he came walking out and uh I stuck
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my hand out to shake his hand and he
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just hugged me and he said I’m free I’m
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finally finally
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free and he was so excited to get out of
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you know to get out of the prison we
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hoed in the vehicle we got him into the
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vehicle and uh we started listening to
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Red Bone and music and he was dancing in
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the in the back seat of the car and it
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was Joy it was absolute pure joy um to
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watch him do that and and then we were
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able to do a ceremony for him and to
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wipe him off and to bless him and put
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put prayers of protection over him and
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wipe him off from the things that that
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happened there in prison and then when
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we came home when he got him back to
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Turtle Mountain the streets were lined
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with hundreds and hundreds of people
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welcoming him at home holding up signs
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cheering singing War hooping it was a be
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beautiful beautiful sight I remember
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seeing the sign that said Mig witch
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Leonard paler which in the inab language
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migwi means thank you and the amount of
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love and gratitude in which he was
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embraced by his community his people and
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his movement it was an absolutely
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historic and moving day and Leonard was
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absolutely joyous when we rolled up to
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his home that we had got for him and
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this is the first home leard palard had
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had since he was 9 years old since he
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was taken away from Turtle Mountain to
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go off to boarding schools and now he
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walked into this home that was prepared
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for him and he loved it and we prayed in
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that home and we blessed out that home
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and Leonard sat down on the couch and
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said said here I’m finally home and he
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thanked everybody he and that’s the
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thing he wants everybody to know is he
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thanks everybody around the world for
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fighting for him and standing up for him
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and never giving up on
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him and Nick could you talk about the
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significance of his release for the
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first nation’s peoples in uh in this
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country and and really throughout the
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world yeah you know throughout how
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Leonard paler was treated in his life
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how he was treated in his over
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prosecution and how he was treated in
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his incarceration is one of grave
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Injustice and that’s pretty consistent
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of how this of how this country has
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treated indigenous people since the
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Inception of this country and so the
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release of Leonard
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paltier uh is something that touches all
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of us because all of us see a little bit
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of ourselves in Leonard paler and we see
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a little bit of our struggle in Leonard
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paler and so Leonard Pal’s release is is
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a Day of Victory and Liberation for
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indigenous people and human rights
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Defenders everywhere because of the the
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symbolism of how how long this has going
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gone on and the Injustice that exists in
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his life but also in the world and so to
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us it’s an acknowledgement it’s an
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acknowledgement with that what they did
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to Leonard paler was wrong what they did
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to indigenous people was wrong and at
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that time in history when Leonard and
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American India movement were rising up
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they were rising up at a time in which
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our ceremonies were outlawed our
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languages were outlawed they were trying
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to terminate the tribes and that
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Uprising created pride and brought back
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our languages and it brought back our
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culture and it brought back our ceremony
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and it was that very Foundation that
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became the foundation that freed Leonard
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pal here because this effort to free
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Leonard would have not been possible if
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it not if it wasn’t founded in prayer if
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it wasn’t founded in our in our belief
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system that he fought for and that
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movement fought for and and so that’s
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why this is full circle to us that’s why
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this means so much to us as Indian
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people that everything that this country
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did to try to kill us off and eradicate
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us Leonard paler being free and his
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Liberation is a symbolism that no matter
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what they did did to try to wipe us out
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that they couldn’t do so successfully
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because we continue to resist and rise
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up and and be resilient people and Nick
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I’m wondering uh in your conversations
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with him that he talk it all about uh uh
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how he was treated while he was in
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prison how his fellow inmates regarded
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him or the prison officials as
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well while he was in prison he was
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treated I mean it it was hell on
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Earth all 49
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years and he was revered and respected
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by the prisoners but it was hell on
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Earth he never had proper Medical Care
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he he never had the medical attention
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that he needed and he was in maximum
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security the entire time think about
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that he was in maximum security the
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entire time and so um you know he was so
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happy to get out of there because of of
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of how he was treated in that place and
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and how bad that place is not just for
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Lon paler but for all prisoners who are
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in there and finally Nick as we wrap up
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uh there you are you’re in bort in North
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Dakota uh we were in North Dakota for a
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Time covering the Standing Rock Sue um
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fight against the Dakota access pipeline
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but um talk about the conditions of
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Leonard peltier’s release um what he
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will do how limit is he in his um
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ability to get
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around yeah yeah we’re we’re um there’s
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going to be we’ll be able to report back
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on that later down the road we’re
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actually going to be meeting with the um
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rrc um the residential re uh re-entry
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Center um today and his point of contact
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to go over what those conditions are
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going to be um and so we’ll have more to
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report back on that the good thing is
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he’ll be able to be in and around his
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home he’ll be able to walk upon the land
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and he’ll be able to have a sense of
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Freedom he’ll be able to participate in
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ceremonies he’ll be able to participate
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and meet with the movement and his
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community and families but the the the
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specific details of his release we’re
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actually going to be I’m actually right
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after this call we’re going to be U
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meeting with Leonard and meeting with
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rrc and working through the details of
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of what that’s going to be
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like well Nick thanks so much for being
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with us and taking on us on this journey
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with you uh we look forward to talking
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to Leonard pel here himself very soon
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Nick Tilson founder and CEO of ndn
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collective he’s a citizen of the olala
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Lota Nation speaking to us from North
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Dakota where Leonard Peltier will live
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Leonard Peltier at 80 years old um has
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been in prison for almost half a century
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released yesterday after President Biden
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granted him clemency to see all our
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interviews with Leonard and on the issue
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over the years you can go to democracy
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now.org democracy Now is funded by
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democracynow.org
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Leonard Arrives Home at Turtle Mountain
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=146Pp9OFBlY)
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Leonard Peltier’s Homecoming Speech
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF__STmW6Tk)
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Leonard Peltier’s Homecoming
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2KeEN1bp_s)
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Gehigarri batzuk:
Prison Writings (Leonard Peltier)
Interview with Bob Robideau on Annie Mae
Annie Maeren izpirituan (liburua)
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Annie Mae Pictou Aquash eta AIM (American Indian Movement)
Leonard Peltier eta Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash-en hilketa
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