HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: National Indian Youth Council, Anna Mae Aquash, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
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She was a female political activist from canada, killed in 1975 after she joined aim to be at the battle of wounded knee. The fbi did end up watching her because of her civil disobedience with her activism in the aim. Political force or impact is heightened when women generate organizational activism through the formation of voluntary associations, women"s clubs, and other collectives. Therefore, the individual actions and acts of agency are important. They show how one woman"s courage to act makes a difference. Women are part of these changes through their actions. In feb 1976, her body was found in the pine ridge reservation in south dakota. She was originally declared dead due to exposure, but this was changed when a second autopsy revealed that she had been shot in the head in an execution style. The controversies of her death, exhumation, and lack of pursuit of criminal justice widened attention of her life and.
