November 2026

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Anna Mae Aquash: Her Life Before the Murder Case

Under Scrutiny | Investigation 002 | Part 03 Before Anna Mae Aquash became the subject of murder trials, disputed testimony and decades of unanswered questions, she was a mother, a teacher and an Indigenous rights activist. The previous article examined the political violence surrounding the American Indian Movement and Pine Ridge Reservation. This part turns to the woman whose death sits at the centre of this investigation: how she became involved, what she worked for, and how accusations of betrayal entered her life. From Nova Scotia to Boston Born Anna Mae Pictou on March 27, 1945, Aquash was Mi’kmaq and …

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Before Anna Mae Aquash: AIM, the FBI and the Violence at Pine Ridge Reservation

Under Scrutiny | Investigation 002 | Part 02 By the time Anna Mae Aquash was accused of being an informant in 1975, distrust of the federal government was not new inside the American Indian Movement. Neither was surveillance. Neither was violence. To understand how suspicion surrounding one woman could eventually become part of a murder case, it is necessary to understand what had happened during the seven years before her death—and particularly what was happening on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The story involves the American Indian Movement, the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a deeply divided …

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John Graham, Anna Mae Aquash and the Controversial Case That Refuses to Close

Under Scrutiny | Investigation 002 | Part 01 John Graham is serving life without parole in South Dakota for the 1975 killing of Anna Mae Aquash. On its face, that might sound like the end of the story. A jury convicted him. The South Dakota Supreme Court upheld that conviction. More than fifteen years have passed since his trial. But the closer I looked at this case, the less straightforward it became. Graham was not originally extradited from Canada to face the state charge that ultimately put him in prison for life. He was surrendered to the United States on …

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