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2003 Native American News Highlights
—Anna Mae Aquash (also known as Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or, legally, Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Mi’kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975) was a Mi’kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became the highest-ranking woman in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States during the mid-1970s. She was murdered in 1976.
After decades of investigation and the hearing of testimony by three federal grand juries, in March 2003, Arlo Looking Cloud and John Graham (also known as John Boy Patton) were indicted for the murder of Aquash.
Looking Cloud was eventually convicted in 2004 and Graham in 2010; both received life sentences. Thelma Rios was indicted along with Graham, but she pled guilty to charges as an accessory to the kidnapping. In 2008 Vine Richard “Dick” Marshall was charged with aiding the murder, but was acquitted of providing the gun. As of 2011, authorities continue to investigate the murder, as they believe that higher ranking AIM leader(s) ordered the execution in the mistaken suspicion that Aquash was an informant.

Sacred Lands Protection Events -Fall 2003

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Indians come forward with tales of physical and sexual abuse at missionary boarding schools

AUTHOR: Sharon Waxman

ROSEBUD RESERVATION -The day the Rev. Kenneth Walleman came to the front door, Lloyd "Sonny" One Star went to get his gun.

"I couldn't keep my composure. I kept shaking," One Star, 46, a leader of the Sioux tribe on this reservation, said. "I was going to kill him."

Walleman was a former administrator at St. Francis Mission, the Jesuit boarding school One Star had attended through his youth, a priest, One Star says now, who sexually abused him for years.
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More than 12,000 Natives in military

KEYWORDS: Iraq war native american warriors american indians in the military american Indian tribes in Iraq war There are more than 12,000 American Indians, Alaska Natives and Canadian Aboriginals serving in the U.S. military, according to data published in the…

Ft. Belknap man finds Columbia data recorder

KEYWORDS: Columbia data recorder columbia space shuttle wreck space shuttle black box Ft Belknap firefighters Chauncy Birdtail AUTHOR: Jan-Mikael Patterson, Tribune Staff Writer FORT BELKNAP — A firefighter from Fort Belknap found what is potentially the most important piece of…

The Beauty Of It All

I would like you to come up into the Universe with me, now look out, we see many stars and galaxies, we see eternity and we wonder at magnificence of it all. Wow! We look down together and see the…

Stars Shine at First Americans Awards

(BEVERLY HILLS) — Reflecting a strong year for Native-themed productions,First Americans in the Arts (FAITA) bestowed their coveted feather awardson a wide range of movies and TV shows. The winners included“Skinwalkers,” “Windtalkers,” “The Business of Fancydancying,” and“Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner).”…