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In June 1975 two FBI agents were killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota
Trudell: the government with the FBI, they were waging a contra war against now all of the AIM people and traditionalist
anytime any grass-roots or any time any group of people start to get popular support, this becomes a threat for the government
and Peltier, then thats when they kinda just put the finishing touches on the momentum that AIM had
Lacy: Now its up to us and please trust that when the wolves come they'll bring the guns and the cuffs
but thats ok 'cause we're not here to fight. We are the keepers of the peace and the pipe.
the Defenders of the Sacredness of Life
and we're here to sing, we're here to bring a new song, a new light
to shine upon the men the women and children of the Red Nation that have endured this Genocide
and we're starting right here with Leonard Peltier and we're not going to stop until this whole world can hear.
Now everybody sing, everybody shout
"We're not gonna leave until they bring Leonard on out"
Yes, everybody sing everybody shout
"We're not gonna leave until they bring Leonard on out"
Yes everybody sing everybody shout
"We're not gonna leave
til they bring Leonard out"
Robideau: on how they want to keep the assimilation and genocide going to destroy our language and our land
and that's what its really all about and they did a very good job of it
but you can never capture the True Spirit of peoples resistance to face the oppression that is being forced on them
the whole philosophy of the American Indian Movement was honoring of over 372 treaties that have never been honored
yes everybody sing everybody shout
"We're not gonna leave until they bring Leonard on out"
Yes everybody sing everybody shout
"We're not gonna leave until they bring Leonard on out"
It's not too late to sing it's not too late to shout "were not gonna leave
"we're not gonna leave
"til they bring Leonard out"
Now its up to you and its up to me
and please believe if we don't stand as one these thieves
are never going to quit, til the whole spirit is stripped
from the soul consuming system of self-righteous wickedness
and to those that may resist, an example shall be made and so it was the case when they threw Leonard in the cage.
for 38 years hes held his peoples tears
but now we've seen enough, the time to stand up is here.
So if your with us sing, if your with us shout
"We're not gonna leave until they bring Leonard on out"
yes if your with us sing if your with us shout
"we're not gonna leave until they bring Leonard out"
yes if your with us sing if your with us shout
"we're not gonna leave, were not gonna leave
til they bring Leonard out.
Robideau: its a natural reaction that you must stand in defense of your land when you are oppressed by an oppressor.
and to protect your women and children
such as Leonard Peltier was doing on June 26th
when men women and children and old people were running for their lives
but people just don't know that during that very same time period
Richard wilson who was then the acting tribal chairman
was in Washington DC signing away 1/8th of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
the Black Hills of South Dakota
which is 133,000 acres of land and valued at billions of dollars of Uranium deposits
that are being strip-mined out of there by over 40 corporations
and which the government had to have a scapegoat because of the diversionary tactic that they created to discredit our people
through the media to get away with the acts of exploiting the resources from our land