Anna Mae Aquash Site
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2006 Michelle Salvatore, Sylvio Mannel, Charles Comes Killing Anna Mae Aquash Pictou was a Micmac Indian born on a small reserve in Nova Scotia. She was an A.I.M. activist and involved in various indigenous rights movements. She was brutally murdered sometime in December of 1975. On March 24, 1976 her frozen body, wrapped in a blanket, was found 10 miles Northeast of Wanblee on Highway 73, down a ravine a few hundred yards from the road.  
Site of where Anna Mae’s body was found.  photo: www.blackmesais.org
She was at the Wounded Knee occupation of 1973 where American Indian Movement members under siege by the military stood off for 71 days to bring attention to native injustice. After her death a state ordered pathologist claimed she had died from exposure. They buried here in haste without a burial permit or proper identification. The then cut off her hands and sent them to the F.B.I. for fingerprinting. After her family was notified and contacted; they exhumed the grave and a second autopsy revealed that the cause of death was from a bullet in the back of the head, execution style. The crime is unsolved to this day; some say Anna Mae was murdered by A.I.M. activists claiming she was an informant for the F.B.I. Others believe it was the government who committed the crime, and still there are other theories surrounding her untimely death. 
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