“Outside the White House, it seems that the only people who rely on the FBI as an accurate source of information is the Canadian Department of External Affairs.”
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“Although the acquittal was a personal victory for the defendants, the unresolved issues of sovereignty, treaty rights and other unsolved murders remain.”
“…arrest everyone, throw them in jail, and they feel that’s the end of the problem, and I don’t, that’s no solution to any problem.”
“It is, in reality, an attempt at a history of AIM and also of the U.S. intelligence effort against Native people.”
“There were many years of growing pains before the BIC was to be able to stand on its own, but without women like Anna Mae, it would never have been possible.”
“This biography of the development of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash as Indian woman and revolutionary shows feminists, Indian activists, and all serious revolutionaries why our enemies were so anxious to end her life and thought.”
“Anyone who witnessed the murders of Black leaders like Fred Hampton in [1969] under the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations knows the lengths to which they are willing to go to crush progressive movements.”
“‘Brave Hearted Woman,’ a 90-minute documentary film on the death of Indian activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, touched the hearts of a good-sized crowd at SF State’s McKenna Theater Tuesday and raised disturbing questions about American law officials’ dealings with Indians.”
“Many feel that they are the objects of a vendetta and have a genuine fear that the FBI is ‘out to get them’ because of their involvement in Wounded Knee and in other crisis situations.”
“Aquash participated in the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee and the struggle that has ensued since then on the reservation against repression by local and federal authorities.”
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was one of the most skilled warriors and dedicated community organizers in the Indigenous resistance movement, and because of this was targeted for repression by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
“The federal government chose to prosecute us because we will not betray our culture, our identity. The federal government chose to prosecute us because we chose not to betray the People.”
“The established media focused their attention on who they judged to be the leaders and organizers — that is, Native American males. Their cameras and tape recorders only grazed the faces of Martha Grass from Oklahoma or Ann Jock from Akwesasne or the many strong women who like Anna Mae Pictou breathed life into an idea.”
This violent state repression consisted of dozens of murders and assaults, including an assault on a non-Native legal defence team.
