November 2004, Vancouver Canada

Commemorating Anna Mae In the past few years, the memory of Anna Mae Aquash has been minimalized to that of a helpless woman who was murdered because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In reality, her murder is a part of a bigger picture, a ruthless campaign waged by the US who had uranium development and profits to gain. This resulted in the murder of at least 76 Indians in the districts of Pine Ridge, in the early 1970s. Anna Mae is remembered by her comrades for her kindness, her sweetness, and her fearlessness. Despite her small size, she was physically capable of taking on any man in a fight. She was also knew her guns, was an expert at handling them. Like all the AIM’sters who were active in Pine Ridge, she knew the consequences of taking a stand, and she continued to do so, refusing to bow down and be a good little Indian. She made no compromises, and lived her life fully experiencing what few of us are brave enough to attain. True freedom.

[email protected] The Reign of Terror-South Dakota

South Dakota in the early 70s

A riot followed the police beating of Sarah Bad Heart Bull, the mother of a young man who was murdered by a rich white businessman who had went out to “kill himself an Indian”. AIM first came to South Dakota when against the onslaught of assaults, murdered as this FBI program includes a call was made for outside help get torched houses, and hit and runs, the criminalizing or even outright serious convictions against white men and drive-by shootings. Only years murdering individuals. Also the once responsible for a racially motivated later, did it become clear to Indians powerful and beautiful movement murder that took place in a Nebraska why the FBI reacted so brutally to became riddled with FBI informers, border town. A Lakota man had been the bold assertions Lakotas were and infiltrators. As the violence publicly humiliated and later murdered making in the districts of Pine Ridge. escalated, the paranoia and suspicion by 2 white brothers. Disinterested Unknown at that time, the US had an grew. The FBI put trustworthy AIM law officials didn’t have the time eye on developing uranium mining leaders in situations that made them of day to bother to investigate the on a portion of the sacred Black Hills, look suspicious, which the FBI call death of an Indian. Angry Lakotas and area known as Sheep Mountain. snitch jacketing, or bad jacketing. and AIM members caravanned to the This area has proven to be one of the Soon, it was hard for people to tell the Nebraska border, only miles away richest in uranium deposits in the US. difference between whom they could from Pine Ridge, and confronted the The FBI implemented their trust, and who was working with the law officials. The sight of hundreds of counterintellegence operation in feds. angry Indians, shocked law officials Pine Ridge, in order to weaken and In February 1973, AIM took over a and they immediately caved in to destroy the urban Indian movement, church in Wounded Knee in a 71-day their demands. A year later, a young and to subjugate the traditional occupation. During the occupation, man was murdered by a rich white Lakotas for once and for all. The Indians began to get brutally businessman, who had told people FBI Counterintellegence Program murdered by goons, and in many that he was “gonna go kill himself an (COINTELPRO), targets political Indian”. A riot occurred at the Custer groups that are viewed as a threat to Joe Stuntz Killsright was the only native that was shot in the FBI launched attack against courthouse because police beat the national security. Often these groups an AIM camp in . To this day he is mother of the victim. The riot lasted are fighting oppression, systemic honoured for his bravery. over an hour, and 2 cop cars were racism, and are attempting to make overturned, and the vacant building things better for their people. This beside the courthouse was torched. program discredits organizations, and Through Dickie Wilson, the corrupt its’ members through media smears. Tribal President of Pine Ridge, the Infiltrators staged many scandals FBI established a paramilitary group that put AIM in a bad light to weaken made up of local boys who called their popularity and wide-support. themselves the Guardians of Oglala COINTELPRO has lethal consequences, Nation (goons). The FBI trained and as any means necessary can be used supplied the goons with bullets, guns to thwart the enemy. This is why and intelligence on AIM. Indians began so many AIM members have been to arm themselves for protection criminalized, imprisoned, or outright The FBI vendetta against AIM

“Iʼm Indian all the way, and always will be. Iʼm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope Iʼm a good example of a human being and of my tribe” -Anna Mae Aquash

cases there were witnesses. Some for the murders of murders even occurred with FBI and the 2 FBI agents. The actions of the police standing nearby watching. US government and the FBI on Pine For the FBI, what started out as job Ridge Reservation between 1973- turned into a hateful vendetta after 1976 became known as the “Reign turned to AIM for protection, and had the FBI botched attempted massacre of Terror”. This deadly chapter in put her fears of the FBI in writing. of an AIM camp. This camp had been our history of indigenous resistance When her body was discovered in recently set up to be supportive of began with the 71-day occupation of February of 1976, law officials and the community members who were Wounded Knee, and intensified with FBI agents including David Price experiencing harassment from goons. the FBI launched attack on an AIM investigated the cause of her death. The FBI had intended to wipe out the camp on June 26, 1975 in Oglala, They cut off her hands for “fingerprint camp on the same day that tribal South Dakota. Ultimately, there is no analysis”, and despite the visible bullet president Dickie Wilson illegally signed proof that Leonard Peltier shot and hole in the back of her head, they away the chunk of the Black Hills that killed the FBI agents, and whoever determined her cause of death to be the US coveted. Despite the immense shot them, did so in an act of self- from frostbite. They quickly arranged show of US mercenary strength, and defense. for her to be buried as a Jane Doe. the vast numbers of various armed A second autopsy was ordered by the government officers at this shoot- Wounded Knee Legal Offense Defense out, 2 FBI agents, and only 1 native Anna Mae Aquash Anna Mae Aquash, a Mi’kmaq from Committee, and Anna Mae's family, (Warrior Joe Stuntz Killsright), lost Shebuncadie NS, and a leader within when her identity was revealed by the their lives. An estimated 40 native AIM, had been out of town when the FBI. Her body was re-dug up, and an men, women, and children escaped. shoot-out occurred. Since the FBI independent pathologist discovered a After the shoot-out, in extreme rage, believed that she’d have access to gaping bullet wound in the back of her the FBI drafted a list of people that inside information in regards to the head. It was easy for him to locate and they suspected were present at the shoot-out, she was snitch-jacketed. remove the .32 calibre bullet lodged shoot-out. Immediately, the blame for Anna Mae, a competent organizer, her head. the death of the 2 agents was pinned leader and fighter was placed in many to Bob Robideau, Dino Butler, Leonard situations that made her vulnerable Peltier and Jimmy Eagle, but they to suspicion of working for the feds. were able to escape. Wherever Anna Mae was, big busts Joe Stuntz was almost forgotten, it followed. People would be arrested FBI agents threatend Myrtle Poorbear. took 3 phone calls inquiring about and held in jail for months, while she They told her theyʼd cut off her hands like the exact cause of Joes’ death, and would be released with little trouble. Anna Maesʼ if she didnʼt sign an affidavit demands for a death certificate before In September 1975, FBI agent David implicating Leonard Peltier for murder of law enforcement took the time to Price attempted to force her to sign 2 FBI agents. record his death. No investigation into an affidavit implicating Leonard Peltier his death has ever been pursued. for the murder of the 2 FBI agents. Dino Butler and Bob Robideau were After she refused to cooperate, Price eventually arrested and taken to court promised her she would not live to and tried by an all-white jury. During see the new year. In order to protect their trial, were able to prove that not herself, Anna Mae went underground, one of the recent murders in Pine Ridge and she told many that the FBI had reservation were ever investigated. offered her money and immunity to They were able to bring to light all turn against Leonard, but that she’d the atrocities and conditions existed rather take her kind of freedom, then on the reservation, and they were whatever they offered her. Up until found not guilty by reason of self- her death, it is a proven fact that she defense. In the end, the FBI targeted FBI History of of Hatred

A young Leonard Peltier in Vancouver, Canada, where he was eventually extradited to North Dakota.

Leonard Peltier nobody would ever know. hearing in 2008. Leonard Peltier, a Chippewa, Ojibwae The FBI had used Myrtle on different There was also a media smear and Sioux, from Turtle Mountain occasions to conjure false evidence campaign that took place in 1999- North Dakota, is widely known to be a against AIM members. She had 2001 to discredit Leonard Peltier. kind and generous man. On April 18, mental illness, and was vulnerable to Leonard Peltier has filed a civil suit 1977, Leonard Peltier was convicted their threats. Later on, she attempted against the FBI, naming former for first-degree murder of agents to recant all her testimonies against director Louis Freeh, current director Jack Coler and Ron Williams, at the AIM members, on the grounds that Robert S. Mueller, and many active shoot-out in Oglala. He had been she had been coerced into signing or retired agents. The allegations extradited from Vancouver, Canada them. Her request for recantment was contained in the suit include providing in 1976. Leonard was on the run, and denied on the grounds that she had the media with false information, and had been discovered and arrested in mental illness. unsupported accusations designed to Alberta. Leonard’s extradition was The blatant bias and the fabrication of deny Leonard his right to due process made possible by the testimony of evidence that got Leonard extradited both before the Parole Commission and Myrtle Poor Bear, a Lakota woman who and imprisoned, have strengthened in petitions for Executive Clemency. claimed that she was his girlfriend, the support he has from the people. The FBI see the support that Leonard and had witnessed him shooting the Many admire and respect Leonard Peltier has, and is attempting to 2 agents. Later Myrtle came out and because of his commitment to AIM, convince the public that Leonard stated that the FBI had threatened to and because he’s remained strong, Peltier is a vicious man, and that he kill her and her child, if she didn’t sign despite his hardships. Today people did indeed kill 2 FBI agents. The FBI what totaled to be 3 affidavits. She actively campaign for his release. also want to bury the truth about had never even met Leonard before. The FBI continues to show the world their actions in Pine Ridge in the early Agents had told her “they could get their hatred for Leonard Peltier, and 70s. away with killing her because they actively lobby to keep him behind were agents”. They also showed her bars. Many of the FBI agents that The FBI’s version of photos of the severed hands of Anna were at the June 26 shoot-out, are Mae Aquash, telling her they would now retired, and are free to air their Anna Mae's murder “put her through a meat grinder”, and personal opinions. Many are a part of After it came to public attention the organization, the “No Parole that the FBI attempted to cover up Peltier Association” that actively Anna Mae's identity and cause of lobbies to keep Leonard from death, and that they mutilated her ever being released from jail. body in order to obtain “fingerprint (www.noparolepeltier.org) analysis”, they released a statement In 2001, the FBI launched announcing that Anna Mae was not the only protest they’ve an FBI informant, and later insinuated ever conducted in history, to that AIM may be responsible for her demonstrate against the then murder. This was done in order to US president Clinton, granting raise peoples’ suspicions that AIM Clemency for Leonard. He had may have believed Anna Mae was an a very real chance of being informant. When these allegations released, but due to the FBI were first made public by the FBI, FBI march around the White House twice to protest pressure, he was not granted they were scoffed at, because people the possibility of Leonard Peltier being granted Clem- Clemency. Leonard, who has saw the leading role the FBI played in ency. Many retired agents are actively involved in the already served his maximum perpetuating the violence that Indians No Parole Peltier Association that works hard to keep sentence, is due for a full parole were experiencing. A few examples of Leonard imprisoned. Shady Characters Involved In the Invesigation

Robert Ecoffey, a Lakota from Wounded Knee, was fresh out of university when he became a BIA cop during the “Reign of Terror”. He has built a successful career in law enforcement by assisting in the political repression of his own people.

Shady Characters involved in the murder investigation other murders that took place during given to the young John Graham Arlo Robert Ecoffey has benefited from that time are: 15-year old Sandra Looking Cloud, and to a woman named serving the US government, and up Ellen Wounded Foot who was shot in Theda Clark, to kidnap Anna Mae, and until earlier this year, he was the the head by a BIA cop. Though in her execute her. BIA Deputy Director of Law. He was case the cop was charged, in most responsible for all the native jails cases charges were never made. Edith nationwide. For several years, jails on Eaglehawk and her 2 children were Robert Ecoffey tribal lands have been operating well Robert Ecoffey has played a prominent murdered by a white vigilante who ran beyond their capacity. According to the role in resurrecting investigation into their car off the road. Jancita Eagle Justice Department, in mid-2002, one the murder case of Anna Mae Aquash. Deer, a young woman was violently jail in six held twice its recommended Ecoffey got his start in law enforcement beaten, was run over by a car driving maximum of prisoners, despite having in Pine Ridge back in the early 70s. at high speed. She had been seen recently had a doubled budget. In all, Ecoffey helped gather intelligence , hours earlier with her boyfriend, a 2,080 people were being held in 70 and participated in the the shoot-out known FBI infiltrator Douglas Durham. Indian jails, detention centers and in Oglala. He was an investigator in It was common knowledge that other correctional facilities. the killings of the 2 FBI agents. he treated her badly and beat her. During the nationwide investigation Today he is continuing to assist in the Still he was never arrested, and no by the Interior inspector general in government's efforts to punish former serious investigation was ever made. the worsening conditions in the native AIM members. In the 1990s, shortly Months later, Jancita's aunt Delphine prisons that was brought on by several after he became the first native US Crowdog's body was found frozen in recent inmate deaths, Ecoffey asked Marshal in history, Ecoffey resurrected the snow. She had been beaten badly, to step down and transfer. He was Anna Mae's murder investigation. and frozen tears could be seen in her granted a transfer, and was reassigned When Ecoffey reopened Anna Mae's eyes. She had been determined to get to Aberdeen on May 27, 2004. murder investigation, he also took a conviction in the murder of her niece Ecoffey's most recent scandal measures to bury the truth about the Jancita. The list of murders that took impacts his credibility as an objective direct, or indirect role the FBI played place during this time goes on and investigator in Anna Mae's murder in her death by attempting to make on. case. After a 5-year relationship with AIM look like the guilty party. Today, 28 years later, most people Kamook Banks, he married her last He perjured himself on the Stand, don’t know the history of AIM, they September. Kamook Banks testified in and brought out don’t know anything about The Reign Arlo Looking Cloud's trial, implicating and John Grahams’ names out for the of Terror, and they don’t understand other AIM members, and admitted first time as suspects in her murder. the brutality that Indians experienced to taking $42,000 from the FBI over Ecoffey, and detective Abe Alonzo in this time period in South Dakota the years for helping them build their from Denver, who spent a lot of time at the hands of the FBI. Many people case. don’t know what to believe, and buddying up Arlo Looking Cloud, both because of the immensity of the case, claim to have been guided by Anna and it’s ugliness, many people aren’t Mae's spirit. Ecoffey was present when Robert Branscombe open to even learning about it in order Arlo Looking Cloud when he gave his Robert Branscombe, who eventually to see the truth. videotaped interview that led to his changed his name to Robert Pictou- What we see today is the promotion arrest. At Arlo's trial, Ecoffey testified Branscombe, claimed to be Anna of the FBI version of how Anna Mae that in July 1995, Looking Cloud had Mae's second cousin. He’s stated was murdered, and that is that an shown him where Aquash was killed. that he began his own independent AIM leader ordered her execution, Arlo Looking Cloud was never able to investigation into her murder in because Anna Mae was believed to answer to this when this was brought 1993, with the support of Anna Mae's work for the feds. That orders were up, as he was not allowed to take the family back in Nova Scotia. Over the stand to defend himself. years, Robert Pictou Branscombe November 2004, Vancouver Canada

Over the years Leonard Peltier has released 3 statements in support of Arlo Looking Cloud and John Graham. Heʼs brought to public attention Robert Branscombe's offered bribe of freedom for a signed affidavit against John Graham. Heʼs questioned the credibility of Robert Ecoffey being involved in the murder investigation. Lastly, he threatend to sue Paul Demain for publishing false information about Leonard Peltier himself. This greatly impacted a media-smear campaign that Paul Demain was actively a part of that published allegations that AIM had Anna Mae executed.

concern about the people conducting cannot prove that Leonard Peltier the murder investigation, and how he shot the agents. DeMain also implied feared that this investigation would Peltiers’ involvement in the Pine Ridge lead to the conviction of 2 innocent murder of fellow AIM member Anna men. He went on to state that he Mae Aquash in 1976. feared this because of a visit he On May 24, 2004, the lawsuit was has promoted the FBI version of who had received from Robert “Pictou” dropped against Demain, on the murdered Anna Mae, something he’s Branscombe in the fall of 1998. He condition he publicly release this published on the web, and in many offered Leonard his freedom within 10 statement: interviews he’s given to the media. days of signing an affidavit that would “I agree with Leonard Peltier that Branscombe has made statements get a conviction against John Boy there have been numerous instances about how he tracked down Arlo Patton (John Graham). Leonard stated of questionable conduct by the FBI Looking Cloud in Denver. He’s claimed he would not, because he had no such and other law enforcement agencies that Arlo admitted to him that he had knowledge. Branscombe said that that in connection with prosecution of been involved in Anna Mae's death, did not matter, if Peltier cooperated, Native Americans in this country. I and that Branscombe wanted Arlo to he’d gain his freedom. Leonard Peltier also agree that the legal, social, and go to a treatment center in order to refused. political environment prevailing on get off alcohol and drugs, so he could Despite the depth of his claimed the Pine Ridge Reservation during the give a solid testimony. commitment to seeking justice for 1970s could be legitimately compared Branscombe also visited Theda the murder of his “cousin” Anna Mae, to a war zone. In my opinion, there Clark, a Lakota woman who was also and his tendency to seek publicity, has also been widespread misconduct implicated in Anna Mae's murder. In he vanished by the time Arlo Looking in the judicial system historically with a revealing interview he gave, along Cloud was arrested. Branscombe respect to cases involving Native with Paul DeMain to Bryan Phelan of has literally dropped off the face Americans. First Writes from the University of of the earth during Arlo's trial and More particularly, I do not believe Kings in Halifax NS, Branscombe said conviction. that Leonard Peltier received a fair that the second time he visited Theda, trial in connection with the murders she refuses to talk to him and kicks Paul Demain of which he was convicted. Certainly he is entitled to one. Nor do I believe, him off her steps. He fails to mention Paul Demain, owner and editor of according to the evidence and that he brought along a cameraman to Indian Country Today, has also been testimony I now have, that Mr. Peltier film her reaction to his visit. “Bob has actively promoting the FBI version had any involvement in the death of an aura about him that scares people,” of who murdered Anna Mae. The key Anna Mae Aquash.” says Paul DeMain, in regards to Theda difference between his work and that On May 28, 2004, DeMain issued Clarks’ reaction to Branscombe. of Branscombe, is that Demain targets a press release in breach of the “They smell government; he’s from Leonard Peltier as having involvement settlement agreement. On June 3, the military and he carries himself with Anna Mae's murder. 2004, after further negotiations, Mr. that way”. In that same interview, On May 1, 2003, Leonard Peltier Peltier dismissed with prejudice his Branscombe compares himself to filed a defamatory lawsuit against complaint against DeMain. Anna Mae. That like her, he became Paul Demain, who authored false, a fugitive, though a different kind. defamatory, & malicious statements During his time in Vietnam, he claims against Leonard. The widely circulated Arlo Looking Cloud after witnessing a friend get killed: newspaper Indian Country Today Arlo Looking Cloud is an Oglala The incident turned him (Branscombe) published these various articles. Lakota, and is a direct descendent into what he calls a killing machine: DeMain has stated that, as a matter of honourable leaders of the Lakota “make contact with the enemy, search of fact, that Mr. Peltier was guilty of Nation. He is a father of 2, and comes and destroy, and take prisoners as shooting the two FBI agents, despite from a big family, who support him sources of information.” the fact that the government itself has 100%. Arlo Looking Cloud is a victim On May 1, 2003, Leonard Peltier repeatedly admitted that it did not & of America’s chemical warfare as released a statement regarding his deep Continual Political Repression of AIM

Arlo Looking Cloud was not allowed to choose his own lawyer or to take the stand at his own trial to defend himself. are many from our own, and other mind. Terry Gilbert approached Judge was not allowed to take the stand to impoverished communities. After Piersol twice, offering to co-council defend himself. All that was shown a 4-day trial, in February 2004, in Arlo, and he was refused, stating CJA was the video taped interview he Rapid City SD, Arlo Looking Cloud was only allows one lawyer unless it is a had given. His defense called only convicted for aiding and abetting in capital case. one witness, and that was FBI agent the murder of Anna Mae Aquash. During Arlo's trial, every witness David Price. David Price was the FBI In March 2003, in an alleged prosecution presented, focused on agent who Anna Mae had said that she confession, video taped by Robert the fact that many people in AIM was hiding out from, because he had Ecoffey, Arlo first stated, “he had a had suspected she was an informant. threatened her life, and who had been few”. Then he slurred contradictory Many people could have been called to one of the agents who was involved answers to leading questions he was appear, and to share that Annie Mae the attempted cover-up of her identity fed by Detective Abe Alonzo. His wasn’t afraid of AIM, but of the FBI; and cause of death during the first alleged confession was that he had that she had stated this to various autopsy. He was questioned for 10 been the unwitting accomplice, of an individuals on numerous occasions; minutes on Anna Mae, and whether AIM orchestrated planned execution that she had actually put such fears she was an FBI informant, which she of Anna Mae Aquash, whom AIM in writing. Also, many witnesses that was not. suspected to be an informant. He prosecution called, had questionable After the trial, Rensch told Arlo and stated a Lakota woman named Theda motives. Kamook Banks admitted on his family that only he could file the Clark drove them all to an isolated ares stand that she had received $42,000 appeal, effectively blocking Arlo from in the district of Wanbli SD. Looking from the FBI over the years for obtaining competent legal assistance. Cloud stated he witnessed John wearing bugs at AIM meetings, and Soon, however, he resigned from Graham take Anna Mae to the edge of for her testimony. Her testimony was the case after Arlo made derogatory a ravine, and shoot her in the back of focused on Leonard Peltier, and how remarks about him to the press! On the head. Arlo was arrested on March she had overheard him bragging about May 3, Arlo's new lawyer Terry Gilbert 30, 2003, as he had been indicted by shooting 2 FBI agents. She stated that appealed of Arlo's conviction, to the a federal grand jury on charges of her then-husband had 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. first-degree murder committed in the remarked that Anna Mae had been perpetration of a kidnapping, which found when everyone first heard that John Graham carries a mandatory life sentence in an unidentified body of a woman had John Graham is a Tuchone from the prison. been discovered. She also stated that Yukon, and a father of 8. He has Arlo's trial date was first set to be Anna Mae had been held against her been a committed activist for most held in June 2003, and then changed will, by AIM in Oregon. of his life. He first got involved in the to February 2004 by Arlo's lawyer Kamook's reason for giving her uranium struggle with the American Rensch. Shortly afterwards, Rensch testimony against Leonard Peltier, Indian Movement in South Dakota in formally requested to be removed may have been for the money. But she the mid-1970s. In the 80s and early from Arlo's case stating irreconcilable may have implicated her ex-husband 90s he was active nationally, and differences. Soon afterwards, he Dennis Banks for personal reasons. It internationally in fighting against changed his mind, saying that he was has been documented, that Anna Mae uranium mining in N. Saskatchewan, now on good terms with Arlo. Arlo's was having an affair with Kamook's where the richest uranium mines in family attempted to hire lawyer Terry husband Dennis Banks, something the world are located. Gilbert, a trusted lawyer who had Kamook has known of since August of He was also a part of the successful represented AIM members in the past. 1975. struggle against the development of They didn’t trust Rensch because he During Arlo's trial, Rensch made few uranium mining in British Columbia, refused to communicate with Arlo's motions and no competency motion which brought about a province- family, and implicated that Arlo was based on the fact that Arlo has an wide moratorium banning uranium present when Anna Mae's murder alcohol and drug problem, and that extraction. took place. This was something he he was vulnerable to manipulation by John was living in Vancouver, and told the press, further proving that he Ecoffey and Alonzo who were trying ran with the local Red Power group did not have Arlo's best interests in to make this case. During his trial, [email protected] John Grahams’ Extradition hearing begins December 6, 2004 in Vancouver Canada.

NARP, (North American Alliance to been indicted in the US on March 30, former AIM members, and that there Red Power) in 1975, when he first 2003, based on Arlo Looking Clouds’ is active support for Arlo Looking Cloud got involved with AIM. John has questionable videotaped confession. and John Graham in their current stated that Anna Mae was his sister, His friends and family organized struggles. The recent targeting of Arlo and that they stuck together because and fundraised to make his $50,000 Looking Cloud and John Graham is natives from “Canada” tended to be bail. This involved a lot of sacrifice, only the beginning. The FBI version given a harder time by their “U.S” especially from his family who sold of Anna Maes’ murder has been that brothers and sisters. In fact, he had their trap-line, their traditional way of John Graham was acting on orders graduated from the Little Red School, living off the land. Since his release, from an AIM leader. Over the years, an AIM school in Minneapolis. Anna he has been under house arrest, and the FBI will attempt to bring down Mae had been teaching there at the has literally no access to any sort of more people who were once a part of time! John stated that his specific job financial assistance. In February, the the . was to drive AIMsters on the run, to US formally filed their request for where they needed to go, and that his extradition to South Dakota to A personal note from the Anna Mae was on the run, hiding out be tried for Anna Maes’ murder. His from the FBI agent David Price and extradition trial is scheduled to begin editor a violent infiltrator named Douglas December 6, 2004. John Graham and Arlo Looking Clouds Durham. He’s stated that he drove There is no physical evidence like a current legal struggle for their own Anna Mae from Denver to Rapid City, gun that the bullet could be traced to, personal freedom is a sign for any to a safe house on Pine Ridge. He was or DNA. Furthermore, John Graham native that is willing to stand up helping her hide out. The nature of is not a US citizen, so why should he to protect their lands. What has “safe houses” is that they were highly be tried in a US court? Furthermore, happened to AIM in the past, and what secure. The identity of the people US and Canadian court systems is happening to Arlo Looking Cloud who had the safe houses, and even have no jurisdiction or authority over and John Graham today, is a loud and the people who were drivers, or who indigenous people. Indigenous People clear message being sent out to all were assisting the people who were have complete rights to practice our land defenders. This is a threat being underground, didn’t necessarily know own justice systems, something made to anyone who dares stand up everyone involved. The purpose of this recognized in Canadian Law. and get in the way of the profits that was to ensure the complete safety of If John were to go to trial for Anna Maes’ corporations that run this world get who they were helping. murder, it could be held in Canada, as from stealing our lands. Now is the The FBI started to visit John in the chances for a fair trial for an Indian in time to come together and make a mid-90’s. On 4 separate visits, the FBI South Dakota is pretty slim. But a fair strong stand. We will be tested more offered him immunity, and offered to trial for a former AIM member in the and more in the coming years. give him a new identity, if he testified US itself is next to impossible. Both against any of the former AIM leaders John and Anna Mae were born and Sources: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse- in ordering Anna Maes’ execution. He bred in Canada; it is legal for the trial Peter Matthiessen, Lakota Woman- refused. On their last visit, they stated to take place in Canada. Mary Crow Dog, Leonard Peltier that this would be his last chance to This extradition process is obviously Statements, Arlo Looking Clouds court cooperate, and if he would not testify, very serious, but luckily John Graham case transcripts, Agents of Repression- that he would be facing the charges has an excellent legal team that , Looking Through the of her murder himself. They told him includes some of Canada’s’ top dogs, Arlo Stories-Janice Shmidt, Graham that they could, and that they would extradition lawyer Terry LaLiberte, and Defense Committee, Leonard Peltier ruin his life. defense attorney Greg Delbigio, and Defense Committee, Associated Press On December 1, 2003, John Graham also the reputable Kassandra Cronin, archives, Bryan Phelan and BBC. was arrested in Vancouver, Canada and Howard Rubin. where he had been working. He never It is important that people be educated hid out, despite being aware that he had on the continued political repression of

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