This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

I'm John Fuglesang. This is progress.

And as you may have heard, Leonard Peltier, who is now 80 years old, has been released from a federal prison after Joe Biden commuted his life sentence to home confinement.

The first pictures are out there.

Stephen Van Zant was right there with him, and I am so thrilled.

We have another installment of still here with Simon and Julie.

Simon Moia Smith is an Oglala Lecoza and Chicano journalist.

He's a ferocious writer at NBC News and the Nation.com.

He's the author of the forthcoming book, Your Spirit

Animal is a jackass, and he's an adjunct professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado,

Denver. Simon, welcome back. Yeah, I love being here. Love having you here. Julie Franchella

is a mental health professional with over 30 years of experience at handling complex trauma with

indigenous youth and families. She's an enrolled member of the Ojibway of Batchewana First Nation Reserve.

She teaches indigenous studies at Durham College,

focusing on the impacts of colonization on First Nations people.

And she is an extraordinary artist, and you should go to her website,

because my God, the stuff she does between indigenous art and some of her paintings of rappers

and jazz artists, blow my mind. Julie, welcome

back. It's great to have you. Thank you so much for having us back. And I just wanted to say,

since we're in the last days of February, I wanted to share that one of our Ojibwe names for February

is Webinetje Gizis, which translates basically to the moon of letting go.

And basically that means during this time, you know, back in the day, food supplies were running low,

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