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  1. So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...

    Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance

    "My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
    Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
    The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
    - Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025

    TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
    Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.

    "Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'

    "Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.

    "Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash

  2. So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...

    Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance

    "My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
    Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
    The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
    - Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025

    TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
    Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.

    "Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'

    "Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.

    "Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash

  3. So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...

    Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance

    "My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
    Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
    The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
    - Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025

    TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
    Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.

    "Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'

    "Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.

    "Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash

  4. So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...

    Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance

    "My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
    Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
    The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
    - Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025

    TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
    Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.

    "Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'

    "Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.

    "Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash

  5. So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...

    Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance

    "My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
    Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
    The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
    - Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025

    TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
    Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.

    "Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'

    "Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.

    "Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash

  6. @PariaSansPortefeuille @MusiqueNow Excerpt from Gord Hill's "Statement on Leonard Peltier’s Clemency and the Case of Annie Mae Aquash"

    "Denise Maloney [Anna Mae's daughter] claims she deals in facts, yet she has been a primary source of disinformation regarding her mother’s death and AIM in general. She claims, for example, that Annie Mae was raped before she was killed, although there is zero forensic evidence to support this claim. Neither of her alleged killers were charged with rape, nor are there any witnesses claiming this occurred.

    "If we accept the state’s version of events, and those of other AIM members, Annie Mae was suspected of being an informant. This is the entire rationale for her execution. In 1999, at a press conference, Russel Means publicly named brothers Vern and Clyde Bellecourt, of Minneapolis AIM, as being the ones that ordered Annie Mae killed. Both brothers are now deceased.

    "John Graham, currently serving a life sentence for killing Annie Mae Aquash.

    "Two AIM members, John Graham and Arlo Looking Cloud, are now serving life sentences after being convicted of the killing. They allegedly carried out the execution under the direction of the Bellecourts.

    "It would appear, then, that those responsible for Anna Mae’s death are either dead or in prison.

    "Why then, is Denise Maloney so adamant that Peltier was complicit in her mother’s death? Leonard Peltier is the last remaining and probably most iconic symbol of the American Indian Movement. It is not simply Peltier she seeks to smear, but the entire movement."
    #AIM #LeonardPeltier #AnnaMaeAquash

  7. It’s time for justice: Why #LeonardPeltier must be granted clemency

    by Donald ‘C-Note’ Hooker, December 11, 2024

    "Leonard Peltier’s story is one of profound injustice. Born in 1944 on the #TurtleMountainChippewa Reservation in North Dakota, Peltier grew up amid systemic neglect, poverty and the long shadow of federal policies designed to undermine Native sovereignty. By the 1970s, he had become a leading figure in the American Indian Movement (AIM), which fought to address the systemic injustices faced by Indigenous communities. This activism, however, placed him directly in the crosshairs of government surveillance and repression.

    "On June 26, 1975, a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota left two FBI agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, dead. The incident occurred against the backdrop of extreme violence and federal overreach on the reservation. Peltier, along with Robert Robideau and Darrelle Butler, was charged with the agents’ deaths. While Robideau and Butler were acquitted on grounds of self-defense, Peltier fled to Canada, where he was later extradited under false pretenses based on coerced testimony.

    "Peltier’s trial in 1977 was marred by prosecutorial misconduct, including the suppression of key ballistics evidence that could have exonerated him. Testimony from Myrtle Poor Bear, a witness who later admitted she had been coerced by the FBI, was used to secure his extradition and conviction. Despite these glaring issues, Peltier was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. His imprisonment has since been widely condemned by #HumanRights organizations, including #AmnestyInternational, as well as legal experts and former law enforcement officials.

    "Crucially, neither the judicial nor legislative branches sentenced Leonard Peltier to death or life without parole. Yet, through repeated parole denials, he has effectively been condemned to die in prison. This abuse of the parole system undermines the fundamental principles of justice and due process, particularly when significant flaws in his trial have been acknowledged by figures like Judge Gerald Heaney, who presided over Peltier’s appeal.

    "Leonard Peltier’s continued imprisonment is not just about one man – it is a reflection of a justice system that fails to protect marginalized communities from systemic abuses. His case is a glaring example of how unchecked power and political motivations can devastate lives and perpetuate injustice."

    sfbayview.com/2024/12/its-time

    #FreeLeonardPeltier #ClemencyForLeonardPeltier #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #AIM #USPol #FBI #ACAB #USJusticeSystem #Clemency #PresidentBiden #FalseTestimony #AmericanIndianMovement #PineRidge #MyrtlePoorBear #FBICoercement #AnnaMaeAquash

  8. From Chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndigenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:

    "Darlene 'Kamook' Nichols who had been married to #DennisBanks, received $42,000 from the #FBI to spy on #AIM and help build the case against #ArloLookingCloud and #JohnGraham [in the murder of #AnnaMaeAquash]. Kamook subsequently married the US Marshal who re-opened the case.

    "The voluntary state-collaboration of John Trudell against Graham and Looking Cloud also became a flashpoint. John Graham’s extradition from so-called Canada would not have been possible without Trudell’s identification of him to the FBI.

    "Though Looking Cloud confessed, he later recanted it stating that he was coerced with drugs given to him by State agents.

    "In 2003 #LeonardPeltier issued this statement regarding the John Graham trial,

    " 'When we talk of sovereignty, we must be willing to solve our own problems and not go running to the oppressor for relief…We have been and still are at odds with the most dangerous, well-funded, strongest military and political organization in the history of the world [the US government]. Whatever the result of any trials conducted in the courtrooms of our oppressor—the same ones’ ultimately responsible for Anna Mae’s death—we will continue to advance in our movement towards victory, inspired by her memory and her spirit.' "

    Pages 182-1823, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaePictouAquash
    #ACAB #AIM #AmericanIndianMovement
    #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #FBI #COINTELPRO

  9. CW: CW - Mention of desecration of a body

    I had to put a CW on this excerpt. It should horrify all of us... There was no reason the FBI had to desecrate #AnnaMaeAquash 's body.

    "The Vancouver chapter of the #NYM [#NativeYouthMovement] issued this statement regarding Graham and Looking Cloud case:

    'If, as alleged, her killing was ordered by AIM’s leadership (under the pretext she was an informant), those ultimately responsible for her death are US government officials, including the FBI—for it was under their orders that a deadly counter-insurgency campaign was waged against AIM, which included portraying genuine movement members as informants. This strategy was used to create paranoia and division, to turn members against one another (just as the FBI had done against the #BlackPantherParty). Anna Mae was herself the target of an FBI “bad jacket.” FBI agents had threatened to kill her in the year prior to her death. When her body was found, despite being on an FBI wanted list, agents had her hands cut off for fingerprint analysis [!!!]. During the first autopsy, the government coroner determined the cause of death to be exposure, somehow missing the bullet hole in the back of her head.' "

    Pages 181-182, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaePictouAquash
    #ACAB #AIM #AmericanIndianMovement
    #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #MMIW #FBI #COINTELPRO

  10. From Chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndigenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:

    "In the book #LakotaWoman, #MaryCrowDog and #RichardErdoes
    shared this prophetic quote by #AnnaMaeAquash in 1975,

    '[The FBI] offered me my freedom and money if I’d testify the way they wanted. I have those two choices now. I chose my kind of freedom, not their kind, even if I have to die. They let me go because they are sure I’ll lead them to Peltier. They’re watching me. I don’t hear them or see them, but I know they’re out there somewhere. I can feel it.' "

    Page 181, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaePictouAquash
    #ACAB #AIM #AmericanIndianMovement
    #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #MMIW #FBI #COINTELPRO

  11. From Chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndigenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:

    [More from Billie Pierre's 2006 article] "Pierre also addressed how #COINTELPRO operated at the time:

    "'This tactic of the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) undermined valuable members of a group by casting them in suspicious situations. Wherever Pictou-Aquash went, arrests would follow. She’d be released, while other AIM members were slapped with charges and high bail. In September 1975, FBI Agent David Price attempted to force her to sign an affidavit implicating Peltier for the murder of the two FBI agents. She refused to cooperate, and Price promised her that she wouldn’t live to see the year’s end. They quickly arranged for her to be buried as a Jane Doe. After this cover-up came to light, the FBI released a statement announcing that Pictou-Aquash was not a government informant. As intended, this statement insinuated that AIM might have believed Pictou-Aquash to be an informant and murdered her.'"

    Page 181, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaeAquash #AnnaMaePictouAquash #ACAB #AIM #AmericanIndianMovement #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #MMIW

  12. From Chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndgenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:

    "In 2003, after multiple grand jury hearings, AIM members #JohnGraham and #ArloLookingCloud were targeted and controversially named as the killers of #AnnaMaeAquash. Others such as Thelma Rios and Vine Richard (Dick) Marshall were also charged in association with her murder.

    "A 2006 article by Billie Pierre, who was part of Native American Youth Movement (NYM) and a founding member of the radical Indigenous youth project Redwire Magazine, addressed the charges against Looking Cloud and Graham:

    "'In the past few years, the member of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash -- an American Indian Movement (AIM) leader from the Mi'kmaq Nation in Nova Scotia, Canada -- has been reduced to that of a helpless woman who was murdered by her own allies. In reality, her murder is part of a ruthless campaign waged by the US government -- a campaign that, far from being ancient history, is still unfolding today. There is no credible evidence linking either man to the crime, and their prosecution seems like nothing more than an attempt to destroy what little remains of AIM... Graham says that the FBI started to visit him in the Yukon during the mid-1990s. On four separate visits, they offered him immunity and a new identity if he testified that any of the other former AIM leaders had ordered Pictou-Aquash's execution. He refused. On their last visit, they stated that this would be his final chance to cooperate; if he would not testify, they would charge him with murder.'"

    Page 180, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaePictouAquash #AnnaMaeAquash #ACAB #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier

  13. #FreeLeonardPeltier! Witness testifies #FBI agent threatened #AnnaMaeAquash's life

    by Heidi Bell Gease, Dec 3, 2010 Updated Oct 11, 2011

    "Before her death, Aquash allegedly said FBI Special Agent David Price threatened she would die within the year if she refused to inform on #LeonardPeltier."

    Original article [paywall]:
    rapidcityjournal.com/news/witn

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/mx5Yw

    #AnnaMaePictouAquash #AIM #MMIW #ACAB #FreeLeonardPeltier #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #Biden

  14. [Thread] From Chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender - #IndigenousAnarchy, #InDefenseOfTheSacred:

    The AIM Song of Anguish

    "Though my family was skeptical of, and kept AIM at a distance, I grew up singing the AIM song. I've sung it at actions throughout the world, my grandma Roberta would always want to sing it, her barely audible voice at the drum belying her fierce power, I've sung it with both #RussellMeans (confronting the racist #ColumbusDay parade in Denver) and with #DennisBanks (too many times to recall) and faceless and nameless warriors on many frontlines. Though its provenance is not known, the story I recall that it was spiritual gift to rally AIM warrior during the liberation of #WoundedKnee.

    "In analyzing #IndigenousPower and #DirectAction, it's vital to examine the context of strategies, tactics, and State repression that comprises the ongoing legality of #IndigenousResistance, particularly with the historically vital force of the American Indian Movement (AIM).

    "Though there are many examples, #LeonardPeltier's false imprisonment for the alleged murder of two #FBI agents in 1975 and the clouded assassination of #AnnaMaePictouAquash are important markers.

    "Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a strong #Mikmaq warrior with AIM, was found murderd in 1974 in Wanblee on the #PineRidge reservation in 'South Dakota'. Pictou-Aquash is also a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women [#MMIW], Girls, Trans, and #TwoSpirit movement today.

    "Accusations of her murder first pointed to the FBI and later, as AIM members revealed how paranoia of infiltrators had gripped the leadership intensely, rumors surfaced that AIM had her killed. This was a time when bad-jacking (making someone look like a snitch or informant even though they aren't) tactics by feds as part of #COINTELPRO was proving to be an effective tactic against revelutionary groups."

    Pages 179-180, #KleeBenally, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    #IndigenousAnarchy
    #Ecosystem
    #DefendTheSacred
    #CorporateColonialism #FreeLeonardPeltier #AnnaMaePictouAquash #AnnaMaeAquash #ACAB