It's been a while since I've posted any updates on the Anna Mae Aquash murder trial. Here's the latest from the Chronicle-Herald in Canada:
The U.S. government has jurisdiction and can prosecute John Graham for the 1975 slaying of Anna Mae Aquash, even though both hail from Canada, federal prosecutors argued in response to a defence motion to dismiss the case.
Graham, a Southern Tsimshian from the Yukon, fought his return to South Dakota under house arrest in Vancouver, but was extradited in December after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to review his case.
Aquash was a Mi’kmaq who was born in Indian Brook. Her family exhumed her remains from a grave in South Dakota in 2004 and reburied them in Nova Scotia.
Graham is scheduled to stand trial starting Monday in Rapid City on a charge he shot Aquash, a fellow American Indian Movement member, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
He’s one of three AIM members indicted for Aquash’s slaying. Arlo Looking Cloud was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to a mandatory life prison term for his role. Richard Marshall has pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting.
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