The Death of Anna Mae Aquash

[Keith Millea]

OK,the case of Anna Mae Aquash gets just as murkey as the Leonard Peltier case.Anna Mae was either set up in a COINTEL OP.,or was killed by The American Indian Movement.One thing is for sure,this case split AIM into factions,and probably is responsible for the decline of AIM as a revolutionary movement amongst Native Americans.

This link goes to a very good investigation into the case by the Vancouver Sun.It is a bit long so I'll just post the first chapter.

http://www.injusticebusters.com/2003/aquash.htm

Who killed Anna Mae?
by Rex Weyler, Vancouver Sun, January 8, 2005
In the 1970s, two First Nations youths, John Graham from Yukon and Anna Mae Pictou from Nova Scotia, set out to help win native rights. They stumbled into a violent American maelstrom that cost Pictou her life and left Graham facing a murder charge.

A short article from the same link.
Murder suspect waiting in Vancouver jail for fate
CBC, WHITEHORSE Dec. 3, 2003

A Yukon man is in a British Columbia jail waiting to see if, and when, he'll be extradited to the United States on a murder charge.
John Graham, formerly from Haines Junction, was arrested on Tuesday by Vancouver police following a 911 tip.
Graham is charged in the 1975 murder of aboriginal activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash in South Dakota. She was found shot to death.

Graham is the second man charged Pictou Aquash's death. Another man, Arlo Looking Cloud is scheduled to on trial in February for the same murder.
Graham had been in hiding for years before his arrest.
In an 1999 interview with the CBC, Graham expressed his concerns about getting a fair trial in the United States.
"I can't cooperate in this investigation," he said at the time. "I refuse to talk to the FBI or the RCMP about this. They're not capable of handling this case and getting any kind of justice."
An extradition request must be filed within 60 days.
It will be up to a judge to decide if Graham will be sent back to the U.S. to stand trial for first degree murder.