[00:00.24]Sacrifice -Robbie Robertson
[00:16.98]You know we have a million stories to tell
[00:20.67]I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told
[00:53.31]Sacrifice your freedom
[00:56.67]Sacrifice your prayer
[01:00.09]Take away your language
[01:03.42]Cut off all your hair
[01:06.63]Sacrifice the loved ones
[01:10.20]Who always stood by me
[01:13.20]Stranded in the wasteland
[01:16.62]Set my spirit free
[01:21.69]My name is Leonard Peltier
[01:23.91]I am a Lakota and Anishnabe
[01:29.07]And I am living in the United States penitentiary
[01:32.16]Which is the swiftest growing
[01:34.41]Indian reservations in the country
[01:37.53]I have been in prison since 1976
[01:41.01]For an incident that took place on the Oglala-Lakota Nation
[01:51.66]There was a shoot-out between members of the American Indian Movement
[01:55.47]And The FBI and the local Sheriffs State Troopers
[02:07.65]Two agents were killed and one Indian was murdered
[03:06.84]Three of us were charged with the deaths of the FBI agents
[03:11.76]My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense
[03:14.55]My case was separated and I was found guilty before a jury of non-Indian people
[03:20.79]The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents
[03:25.29]Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it
[03:31.08]But someone has to pay for the crime
[03:44.31]There's a lot of nights that I lay in my cell
[03:48.42]And I can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror
[03:55.59]That I have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended
[04:26.40]Sacrifice your freedom
[04:29.64]Sacrifice your prayer
[04:33.09]Take away your language
[04:36.42]Cut off all your hair
[04:39.66]Sacrifice the loved ones
[04:43.17]Who always stood by me
[04:46.20]Stranded in the wasteland
[04:49.62]Set my spirit free
[05:22.41]But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice
[05:26.49]To make things better for our people
[05:29.49]The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it
[05:32.64]Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago
[05:35.34]Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made
[05:39.09]Some gave their lives
[05:41.13]Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms
[05:45.27]So the sacrifice I have made is nothing compared to those
[05:51.99]I've gone too far now to start backing down
[05:56.28]I don't give up
[05:57.69]Not 'til my people are free will I give up
[06:01.32]And if I have to sacrifice some more
[06:02.91]Then I sacrifice some more