Anna Mae Aquash

Three years after Wounded Knee, and less than a year after the Shootout at Jumping Bull Ranch, on February 24, 1976, Aquash was discovered dead by the edge of State Road 73 on the far northeast corner of the Pine Ridge Reservation, about 10 miles from Wanblee, South Dakota, close to Kadoka. Her body was discovered throughout an oddly moderately hot magic charm in late February, 1976 by a rancher entitled Roger Amiotte. An autopsy was undertook by health practitioner, W. O. Brown who wrote: "it seems she had been dead for about 10 days." Failing to observe a ...