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Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
★ 8.7/10•2024•TV-MA•Documentary•Crime
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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.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateNov 26, 2024

Episodes

Episode 1 - Americanize YouE152m

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.

Nov 26, 2024

Episode 2 - Wounded Knee 1973E254m

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.

Nov 26, 2024

Episode 3 - ExposureE352m

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.

Nov 26, 2024

Episode 4 - A Cry for JusticeE453m

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.

Nov 26, 2024

Actors

Denise Pictou-Maloney

Self - Annie Mae's Daughter

Mary Lafford

Self - Annie Mae's Sister

Paul DeMain

Self - Former Editor, News from Indian Country

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate

Stonehorse Lone Goeman

Stonehorse Lone Goeman

Self - Annie Mae's Friend

Jake Maloney

Self - Annie Mae's Ex-Husband

Doug George-Kanentiio

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

Patricia Landry

Self - Founding Member 1970, Boston Indian Council

Clyde Bellecourt

Self - AIM Co-Founder

Richard Two Elk

Self - AIM Activist

Margo Thunderbird

Self - Annie Mae's Friend

Bruce Ellison

Self - Lawyer, Indigenous Activists

Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks

Self - AIM Co-Founder (archive footage)

John Trudell

John Trudell

Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)

Russell Means

Russell Means

Self - AIM Leader (archive footage)

Vernon Bellecourt

Vernon Bellecourt

Self - AIM Co-Founder (archive footage)

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