49 years ago, on Feb 6, 1976, the Royal Mounted Canadian Police took Leonard Peltier into custody at the Mountain Cree Camp School in Alberta. At the time the AIM activist was one of America’s Most Wanted.
While he was locked up in Oakalla Prison, Leonard gave a print interview to the Vancouver Sun, which we have dramatized with the help of Emmy Award-winning narrator and long-time Peltier advocate, Peter Coyote.
It was the only interview the Native American was permitted during his protracted extradition battle with the Canadian government.
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“Leonard's not a criminal. I mean, he's not a criminal. Is he going to hurt anybody? No. So why is he in? So he can be a symbol of military vengeance. Do we want that?
I know people in the military. And I know that a lot of the reasons people go into the military is not because they want to kill people. It's because they think somehow the military has many missions and some of those missions are to help people. And that's also why a lot of people go into law enforcement.
People don't like to hear this, but I know that there are people who are cruel in law enforcement, but I also know there are really good people who want to help people.
Let's make that the face of the military and of law enforcement. Peacekeepers. That's the face we want. And Leonard's a symbol of that. But he's also a real person and he deserves to get out. He deserves to be with his family. He deserves to be hugged by his people. He deserves to touch his people, to hear their songs, to walk this earth.
He deserves to be part, he deserves to be -- the most important thing for Indian people is to be with each other in a powwow in a setting out in the woods around a fire. The most important thing in the world is to be embraced and to be part of a group of Indians. And I felt how important that was. I felt it so many times. And sometimes when I've felt it I've been looking around and saying, yeah, I'm free to be among people and then to go away and to come back. And he isn't, but he should be free to be among people to go away to come back to make a mistake, to do whatever he wants. He should be free.
In Season 2, Episode 14, “Louise,” Native American author, and 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Louise Erdrich talks about what Leonard’s freedom would mean to Indigenous people at home and abroad.
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“You know, the court had an obligation too. Your job is not just to get a conviction. You work for the Department of Justice. Seems like there ought to be some thought about justice somewhere. And instead this Klocke just ditty bops on back to the jury room. Let's go.
It was unbelievable. You only have one job up there and that's to make sure that the defendant gets a fair trial. And the most basic piece of fairness is that you've got jurors who are not prejudiced against the ethnicity of the guy who's on trial.”
In Season 2, Episode 13, “Snow Job,” former federal judge Kevin H. Sharp criticizes the court in Fargo for allowing a trailblazing Karen, Shirley Klocke, to serve on Peltier’s jury.
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Today we are excited to announce that all 22 episodes of LEONARD, including the final four unreleased episodes of Season Two, are now available on @WonderyMedia, the premium podcast studio known for stories like “Dr. Death” and “My Favorite Murder.”
Forty of Wondery’s shows have hit #1 on Apple Podcasts, so we’re hopeful that this partnership will bring greater awareness of Leonard’s story to the wider public.
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Tell the world the story of Leonard Peltier by sharing this film and join the global prayer for his freedom by calling for his immediate release. President Joe Biden please grant him clemency now.
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The Native Music Hall of Fame’s Keith Secola treats us to an unplugged version of “Innocent Man,” a song he wrote for Leonard in the early 90s with Floyd Red Crow Westerman in S2 E8 NDN Kars out now.
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“Got a bumper sticker says Free Leonard Peltier!” Singer-songwriter Keith Secola plays a very special version of his anthem “NDN Kars” in S2 E8 out now on all major podcast platforms.
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Edgar Bear Runner takes us to Leonard’s hideout on the Bear Runners ancestral family land in Porcupine, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in S2 / E4 / “Sacrificed” out now.
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The capper to an awesome Unthanksgiving Day in Rapid City!
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OYATE NAZIPI
Evening Program
OYATE NAZIPI
OYATE NAZIPI
Evening Portion
Rapid City, SD
November 27, 2021
Organizers
International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Jean Roach
Carol Gokee
OYATE NAZIPI
Oyate Nazipi~”People standing together”
Awareness Gathering for Leonard Peltier
Rapid City, SD
November 27, 2021
Organizers:
International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Jean Roach
Carol Gokee
A podcast series about Leonard Peltier, America's longest serving Indigenous political prisoner.
