What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

The title track off Today's Empires Tomorrow's ALeonard Peltiers by Canadian band Propagandhi mentions the Pine Ridge shoot-out along with the murder of Anna Mae Aquash. On February 6 1976 he was arrested and extradited from Canada based on an affidavit signed by Myrtle Poor Bear a local Native American woman. Authorities later identified the driver as Peltier.

Peltier is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. Leonard Peltier (born September 12 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.