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- Aquash, a member of the Mi'kmaq Tribe of Nova Scotia, participated in the AIM's 1973 armed occupation of the Pine Ridge village of Wounded Knee, a two-month siege that included several gunbattles with federal officers. Prosecutors believe AIM leaders later ordered Aquash killed because they thought she was a government informant.
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Apr 25, 2014 · On Feb. 24, 1976, a rancher in South Dakota was installing a fence on land situated along the edge of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when he spotted a body at the bottom of a 30-foot...
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Observers and historians speculate about who ordered the murder of Annie Mae Aquash. Before her death, Aquash allegedly said FBI Special Agent David Price threatened she would die within the year if she refused to inform on Leonard Peltier.
Jan 25, 2011 · A South Dakota jury convicted John Graham of felony murder for participating in a kidnapping that ended in Aquash's death.
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Dec 11, 2010 · Jurors found the man, John Graham, guilty in the kidnapping and death of Annie Mae Aquash. Her death became linked to the movement and its often-violent struggles with federal agents during...
The only key detail he left out was that the triggermen had acted at the behest of AIM leaders who had become paranoid about FBI infiltrators and ordered Aquash murdered.
In the aftermath of Annie Mae Aquash’s murder, many Indigenous women within AIM abandoned the movement in order to distance themselves from the organization’s growing militancy and sexism. The male leadership of AIM, on the other hand, mounted an increasingly violent protest campaign on the
Jul 3, 2018 · Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Indigenous activist, homicide victim (born 27 March 1945 in Shubenacadie, NS; died December 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota). A member of the militant American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States during the 1970s, Aquash was murdered in 1975, triggering a 35-year investigation that ...
