Resistance
The Work Behind the Songs
A protest single for Leonard Peltier, a community radio feature that carried it, and the campaign it was written for.
Broadcast
Community Radio Feature
Watch the Community Radio Feature excerpt here. The full interview runs on the station’s own site. The feature is Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Indigenous Resistance — Nick Estes and Madonna Thunder Hawk, hosted by David Barsamian.
The segment above is a five-minute excerpt from the full episode — not the complete interview. Listen to the full interview →
On the Air
Community & Campus Radio
Independent, listener-funded stations and networks that carry Indigenous programming and the kind of interviews this feature came out of.
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CJSW 90.9 FM
Calgary, Alberta
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CKUT 90.3 FM
Montréal, Québec
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KBOO 90.7 FM
Portland, Oregon
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Radio Free
News for people, not profits
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NCRA / ANREC
National Campus & Community Radio
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Alternative Radio
Founded by David Barsamian
Alternative Radio was founded by David Barsamian in 1986 and distributes to community, campus and public stations across North America.
The Campaign
Leonard Peltier
“Bring Him Out” was written and released for Leonard Peltier, the Anishinaabe–Lakota American Indian Movement member convicted in 1977 of the murders of two FBI agents during the 1975 shoot-out at Oglala, on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Peltier has maintained his innocence throughout, and his prosecution has been contested for decades by Amnesty International, tribal governments and former federal officials.
Eneas Lacy released the song on June 26, 2013 — the thirty-eighth anniversary of the day of the shoot-out — with the late John Trudell and Steve Robideau featured on the track.
On January 20, 2025, President Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence to home confinement. He left federal prison on February 18, 2025, after nearly fifty years inside, and returned to Turtle Mountain in North Dakota.
The Song
- Title
- Bring Him Out
- Released
- June 26, 2013
- Featuring
- John Trudell & Steve Robideau
- Written for
- Leonard Peltier
- Length
- 4:34
Follow the Campaign
The long-running campaign for Peltier’s freedom is carried today by NDN Collective, which also handles his post-release legal and medical fund.
Watch
Two feature-length interviews and documentaries about Peltier’s case sit on the videos page, alongside the songs.
On Accuracy
Everything on this page is limited to what can be documented: release dates taken from the recordings themselves, the court record and reporting on Peltier’s case, and the stations’ own archives. Where a connection cannot be verified, it is not claimed here.
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