About
This true crime docuseries examines the murder of Annie Mae Aquash – a Mi'kmaq woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, a mother of two daughters, a teacher, and a revolutionary who fought for Indigenous rights in the 1970s whose death went unsolved for almost 30 years.
Cast
Denise Pictou-Maloney
as Self - Annie Mae's Daughter
Mary Lafford
as Self - Annie Mae's Sister
Paul DeMain
as Self - Former Editor, News from Indian Country
Joy Harjo
as Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Stonehorse Lone Goeman
as Self - Annie Mae's Friend
Jake Maloney
as Self - Annie Mae's Ex-Husband
Doug George-Kanentiio
as Self - Former Editor, Akwesasne Notes (as Doug George)
Patricia Landry
as Self - Founding Member 1970, Boston Indian Council
Clyde Bellecourt
as Self - AIM Co-Founder
Richard Two Elk
as Self - AIM Activist
Margo Thunderbird
as Self - Annie Mae's Friend
Bruce Ellison
as Self - Lawyer, Indigenous Activists
Dennis Banks
as Self - AIM Co-Founder (archive footage)
John Trudell
as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)
Russell Means
as Self - AIM Leader (archive footage)
Vernon Bellecourt
as Self - AIM Co-Founder (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
Americanize You
In 1972 Mi'kmaq Annie Mae Pictou Aquash answers a call by the American Indian Movement (AIM) to go to Washington to force the government to honor its treaty obligations with Indigenous people. Tensions rise, and the activists make a disturbing discovery.
Wounded Knee 1973
Annie Mae risks her life to join a dangerous occupation in South Dakota. The Movement is embraced by Hollywood, the government secretly infiltrates AIM at the highest levels, and Annie Mae makes a dangerous decision in her personal life.
Exposure
A clash between the FBI and AIM proves deadly. Annie Mae makes a secret pact with a close friend before going on the run with a group of fugitives, and then disappears. A body is discovered a short while later in the Badlands.
A Cry for Justice
After a strange incident, the first Indigenous U.S. Marshall investigates Annie Mae's fate. Evidence leads to three surprising names. Investigators struggle to find enough evidence to go to trial but then someone comes forward and agrees to wear a wire.
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