
ANNA MAE AQUASH
Anna Mae Aquash (also Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or 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 who became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) during the early 1970s. She was found murdered in 1976 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and is sometimes seen as a martyr of the Red power and indigenous peoples resistance movement. She was born in Indian Brook, Nova Scotia, Canada and was thirty years old at the time of her death.
ANNA AQUASH WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE SHE SPEEK FOR NATIVE AMERICAN SO THEY WONT TAKE THEIR LAND AND THEN SHE GOT MURDERED.
WHY WILL SHE RISK HER LIFE?