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Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

2024 - 2024

Americanize You

26th November 2024
Episode 1
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

26th November 2024
Episode 2
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

26th November 2024
Episode 3
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

26th November 2024
Episode 4
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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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.

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Full Cast
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Denise Pictou-Maloney

Self - Annie Mae's Daughter

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Mary Lafford

Self - Annie Mae's Sister

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Paul DeMain

Self - Former Editor, News from Indian Country

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Joy Harjo

Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate

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Stonehorse Lone Goeman

Self - Annie Mae's Friend

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Jake Maloney

Self - Annie Mae's Ex-Husband

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Doug George-Kanentiio

Self - Former Editor, Akwesasne Notes (as Doug George)

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Patricia Landry

Self - Founding Member 1970, Boston Indian Council

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Clyde Bellecourt

Self - AIM Co-Founder

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Richard Two Elk

Self - AIM Activist

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Margo Thunderbird

Self - Annie Mae's Friend

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Bruce Ellison

Self - Lawyer, Indigenous Activists

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Dennis Banks

Self - AIM Co-Founder (archive footage)

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John Trudell

Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)

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Russell Means

Self - AIM Leader (archive footage)

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Vernon Bellecourt

Self - AIM Co-Founder (archive footage)

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Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Full Crew
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Ezra Edelman

Executive Producer

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Caroline Waterlow

Executive Producer

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Amy J. Kaufman

Executive Producer

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Riva Marker

Executive Producer

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Yvonne Russo

Producer

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Jesse Gamar

Editor

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Mark Becker

Supervising Editor

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Mark Becker

Co-Executive Producer

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