Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, American Indian activist

On February 24, 1976, during a thaw in early spring, the body of Anna Mae Pictou was found alongside the highway 73 remote northeastern corner of the Pine Ridge Reservation, about 10 miles of Wanblee, South Dakota. Although federal agents were present when the body is recovered, you know Anna Mae, he was identified.

The Bureau of Indian doctor, WO Brown, next to the bullet in his skull, said he died of exposure, and his autopsy report revealed she had been dead ten days. Later, his hands were cut and sent to the headquarters Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, DC for fingerprinting and his body was buried as "Jane Doe". Three days later he was identified, and five days later his family was informed he had died "of natural causes."

The family obtained a court order to have him exhumed and a second autopsy was performed, revealing the true cause of death: a single shot .32 Calibur fired at close range into his skull. IAM members said rumors that he was killed by the FBI to discredit AIM leader. The FBI leaked rumors that he was killed by AIM members because they thought he was an FBI informant. No charges were filed against a person until nearly thirty years later.

The Suspects and the Outcome of Their Trials2

On March 20, 2003, two men indicted for the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Fritz "Arlo" Looking Cloud, a homeless man Lakota, and John Graham (aka John Boy Patton), a Tutchone Athabascan man from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, who is a citizen of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation. Although Theda Clark, my aunt passed Graham, also appears to have been implicated by the testimony of the court, he was charged. Theda Clark, now in his 80 was gifted with a nursing home is not disclosed and health is failing.

Its February 8, 2004 Arlo Looking Cloud was tried before a U.S. federal jury five days later and convicted. On 23 April 2004, he was sentenced to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

Although no physical evidence linking the crimes Looking Cloud is presented, showing a videotape in which Looking Cloud admits to having been the scene of the murder, but claims he did not know that Aquash was killed. In this video, that Arlo Looking Cloud was interviewed by Denver detective Abe Alonzo Police Department and Robert Ecoffey, Director of the Office ...