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Untitled Annie Mae Aquash Documentary. An unprecedented investigation into the murder of Indigenous Activist Annie Mae Aquash becomes a critical focus in examining the continuing fight for Indigenous sovereignty as well as effects of centuries of colonization on Indigenous women and girls. Indigenous activist Annie Mae Aquash is one of the ...
Oct 27, 2002 · The Spirit of Annie Mae: Directed by Catherine Anne Martin. With Angela Baker, Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Minnie Two-Shoes. Anna Marie Pictou-Aquash was a leading Native American political activist.
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- Documentary, Mystery
- Catherine Anne Martin
- 2002-10-27
Exploring the unsolved murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Annie Mae Aquash, we uncover a mysterious and complicated web of deception spun over the course of several decades. Annie Mae is one of thousands who make up the staggering number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. By reframing her story, the film hopes to shed light on this current epidemic.
2002 1 h 13 min. In 1975, Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, a 30-year-old Nova Scotia born-Mi'kmaq, was shot dead, execution style, on a desolate road in South Dakota. Nearly three decades later the crime remains a mystery. Aquash was highly placed in the American Indian Movement (AIM), a radical First Nations organization that took up arms in the 1970s ...
Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 ) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education and resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peoples.
Born on an impoverished Indian reservation in Nova Scotia, Annie Mae Aquash gets married young. After moving to Boston with her husband, she returns to Canada, where a local chief gets her ...
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2002. 1 hr 13 mins. Documentary. NR. Watchlist. Powerful documentary about the life and work of Native American activist Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, who was mysteriously murdered in 1975. Included ...
