Annie Mae & Nogeeshik Aquash weddingSiege of Wounded Knee, 1973
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Thelma Rios, the most recent Indian arrested for the murder of Annie Mae Aquash was a member of the "pie patrol", a group of women who hated Anna Mae and attempted to threaten and harass her back in the summer of 1975. This info came to me via an interview with AIM leader Vernon Bellecourt, a number of years before he passed away.
Thelma Rios was married to David Hill, also know as "Mr. X" in Indian Country. Some old AIM have claimed that David Hill is a fed, an FBI agent. Robert Robideau was close to David Hill and repeatedly defended Hill, never believed the story against Hill.
Rios was probably arrested because she is just old enough and weak enough to name names, just like Looking CLoud--found guilty of killing Annie Mae in 04--is doing. Rios will probably co-operate with the prosecution of John Graham. But her naming a former husband--Hill-- as FBI/fed who "killed Anna Mae" --according to an interview she did with David Seals in 2004---well. That's just downright ludicrous. Att'y General Marty Jackley would not arrest a woman who was then going to talk about her former husband being an FBI responsible for the murder of Annie Mae. Is she? No. I don't imagine that in a million years.
a.c. 9.12.09
SOME basic, old blog HISTORY
John Graham was arrested in Dec. 2003, accused of murdering his friend and fellow member of the American Indian Movement, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. Annie Mae had been threatened by the FBI, was an active leader and had been arrested for "running weapons"--released without bail-- at one point soon before she was found executed in Feb. 1976.
Graham is the second of two Indian men accused of killing Annie Mae. The other, Arlo Looking Cloud, has been sentenced to life in prison after a trial which last 3 1/2 days in Rapid City, South Dakota, Feb. 2004. He was convicted based on hearsay evidence. Currently he is appealing his sentence and has retracted his original statement that John Graham killed Annie Mae.
The case is complex. This blog intends to encourage people to think for themselves. I offer information which comes to me, with a bias toward believing that people are innocent until proven otherwise. AND that nothing is what it seems to be. In these times.website for John Graham by his family
SUMMARY
as of Spring 2007
At that time, Feb. 21, 2005, the Canadian Government ruled to send John Graham to the U.S. to be tried in Rapid City, South Dakota. Graham's attorney, Terry LaLiberte, plans an appeal to that ruling and John Graham was set free on bail, under house arrest, from March 2005 until November 7, 2005. He has to return to court then. To see what the powers that be will provide. Next. In November, 2005, exactly 30 years after Anna Mae "went missing", John Graham's extradition appeal was delayed until June, 2006. He was released on bail, under house arrest.
In June 2006 his appeal to the legality of Canadian extradition laws allowed for an extension of hearings, Graham's next court date being October, 2006. Click here for update from June 2006. Graham remains released on bail, under house arrest.
...Graham's last court date October, 2006 Click here for details
Graham remains released on bail, under house arrest
Please note: some of these pieces were written as part of my coverage of the hearings for KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles. A far-out public radio station committed to covering issues other media won't touch. Including the trials of former members of the American Indian Movement.
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