Anna Mae Aquash
Title: Anna Mae Aquash (Pictou), Naguset Eask
Subject: The murder of Anna Mae Aquash
Created: 2023
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 48″x36″
Naguset Eask
“Annie Mae Aquash (Mi’kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975) was a First Nations activist and Mi’kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education and resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peoples. She was part of the American Indian Movement, participated in several occupations, and participated in the 1973 Wounded Knee incident at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, United States.
Aquash also participated in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and occupation of the Department of Interior headquarters in Washington, DC. In the following years, Aquash was active in protests to draw positive government action and acknowledgement of First Nations and Native American civil rights in Canada and Wisconsin. After Aquash disappeared in late December 1975, there were rumors she had been killed. An FBI report by Special Agent David Price states an informant saw Aquash alive on February 12, 1976.
On February 24, Aquash’s body was found in Wanblee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; she initially was determined to have died from exposure by a Bureau of Indian Affairs medical examiner, but after a second autopsy two weeks later, was found to have been murdered by an execution-style gunshot wound to the head. Initially, her death was covered up and the body declared to be “unidentifiable”.”
– Wikipedia, Anna Mae Aquash
Poster
Download the 11″x8.5″ poster (.pdf), Print – Anna Mae Aquash.
Close-ups
Alternative Version
Anna Mae Aquash Portrait
Creative Commons License
This work by David Bernie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may download, share, and post the images under the condition that the works are attributed to the artist.
