The Death of Anna Mae Aquash

[Keith Millea]

Yeah Magda,this story gets lost in the whole Pine Ridge war at that time.Although,it is interwoven into the movie "Thunderheart" that stars Van Kilmer.The other most crucial thing to understand is that it was the testimony of Myrtle Poor Bear that sealed the fate of Leonard Peltier.Here is the important paragraph below.

The FBI could make the question moot by releasing its photos from the two autopsies. It will not. To do so, say Aquash’s dismemberers, would violate norms of decency. The FBI does, however, say that its agents showed the pictures to people on the reservation and that this is proof that agents were trying to identify Jane Doe. But the FBI will not say to whom it showed the pictures, and the only person known to have seen them is one Myrtle Poor Bear. In Poor Bear’s story, Agents Price and Wood showed her the pictures as a threat. They said Aquash had been blackened by fire, not frostbite, and that if Poor Bear did not agree to lie under oath that she had seen AIM’s Leonard Peltier kill the two FBI agents in 1975, Poor Bear would end up like Aquash. Poor Bear perjured herself.