One of the earliest diggers was a young kid named Robert Freee, who was a runaway.

He's an Indian from up in Seattle.

And he very quickly became involved in every native struggle of my lifetime. Wounded

need and the squally fishing rights, the Mohawk battles. He's just an incredible

guy. He's the grandfather grandfather now but he was 14 when we met him and

through him I met a lot of people and got involved in a lot of stuff and there was a

point at which he brought this guy out.

I knew him as Alec and they needed to buy guns

for wounded me and they needed some ID

and I helped him do that.

And then two or three years later I was in Hollywood and I was in an agent's office and he had a copy of this newspaper called Aquasasne Notes.

And there was the story of this guy called Leonard Petz. newspaper called Aquasasne Notes.

And there was the story of this guy called Leonard Peltier.

And I read it, and it was an obvious frame up.

I mean, the judge that convicted and wrote a letter

to President Clinton begging for clemency for him.

So I sent him some commissary money, which is what I do to friends who were in prison, you know,

send them 50 bucks a month, they can buy food and toothpaste and stuff.

And I get a letter back from this guy saying, hey, I knew a guy named Coyote once who had an old yellow Volkswagen and a blue-eyed dog and I met him with...

So it turns out that this guy Alec was Leonard Peltier and he was Robert's bodyguard

because Robert was taking the elders around.

He was the one that received the suitcase of $60,000 when they took over the Justice Department

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