From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Imagine living in a cubicle larger than some people's closets for all those years.

And they finally are able to walk out of there.

For me it was unbelievable that this is actually happening to me.

But I mean, the feeling of, wow, I can go, wow, I'll be home.

In this Democracy Now special, we spend the hour with longtime indigenous leader Leonard Peltier.

In February, he was released from federal prison in Florida after spending nearly 50 years

behind bars for a crime he says he did not

commit. President Biden, on his final day in office, commuted Peltier's sentence to home

confinement. We'll speak to Leonard Peltier about his life of resistance from attending an Indian

boarding school as a child to his years with the American Indian movement,

aimed to his life in prison. We interviewed him at his home on his 81st birthday weekend.

What really kept me strong with my anger. I was extremely angry about what they did to me

and my people.

We'll also speak to Leonard Peltier's daughter, Marquita Shields Peltier.

She was just a toddler when her father was imprisoned in 1976.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

In this special broadcast, we spend the hour with longtime indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.

In February, he was released from a federal prison in Florida after spending nearly half a century behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. President Biden, on his last

day in office, commuted Peltier's life sentence to home confinement. Biden's decision followed

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