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From: "antoinette" <anampress@mindspring.com>
To: <kolahq@skynet.be>
Subject: ANNIE MAE...
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:17:24 -0800

in memory of annie mae...
antoinette
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"On February 24, 1976 the temperature climbed from freezing to above,
bringing an early thaw to the bleak northeastern corner of  Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota.

Cattle rancher Roger AMiott went to work lining up a new fence, moving
slowly, wary of the mud left by the receding snow.  He was working his way
along a dry creek bed about midafternoon when he saw the body.

She was still dressed in a wine colored ski jacket, jeans and blue clothe
shoes, but she had been there at least several days and had begun to rot.
Her face was blackened and some featrues had been nibbled away by prairie
animals.  the dead woman was 30 year old Anna Mae (Pictou) Aquash, an
important organizer  in the American Indian Movement..."
                                            from Rolling Stone Mag.  April
7, 1977

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A rancher found a decomposing body near riverbed in Wanblee.  He reported to
the BIA police the find.  A half hour later several FBI and tribal police
arrive to shuffle the body of this young,  dark haired Indian woman to the
Pine Ridge Public Health Hospital.  It was there that a BIA pathologist
performed an autopsy concluding that the woman had died from exposure.  The
blood seeping from the back of her head was ignored.  Her hands were severed
and sent to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.  a day AFTER she was
buried.  Fingerprinting was perhaps too difficult a task?? the body was
buried in an unmarked grave with a death warrant reading  "Jane Doe."

Though there were many people present who could have identified Annie Mae,
no one came forward, no one spoke.  Not even the nurse who saw the blood and
injury to annie mae's head.  No one said a thing.

One week after "Jane Doe" was buried, Annie Mae's sister Mary requested
through WKLDOC lawyers the body to be exhumed.  Annie Mae had been missing
and people were suspecting the worse.  The body  was immediately identified
by her friends as that of Annie Mae.  On March 10, 1976 an independent
autopsy was accomplished by Gary Peterson.  His report read:

        "...on the posterior neck...is a 4mm. perforation ot the
skin...surrounding this is an area of reddish discoloration. removed from
the brain is a metallic pellet...consistent with lead."

ANNIE MAE HAD BEEN MURDERED at close range with a .32 caliber handgun, shot
execution style in the back of the head....

In a heated ecnounter with one of the murderers Robert Pictou Branscombe is
told "yea.  She wanted to pray.  for her daughters.  But we blew her away
before she could"
 

  and i want to know
who took her
down
will look into their faces
hold them by their throats
i will do the talking
she cannot breath
no reprieve
forget?   no one will forget...."
 

from      WHO WOULD UNBRAID HER HAIR:the legend of annie mae.
  by antoinette claypoole

see: www.dickshovel.com/clay5.html  from more info about annie mae, archives
and links to  honoring pages.
 

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