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Please request permission to reprint and distribute our reporting on Anna/Annie Mae Aquash, in particular the time-lines that are contained here. Time lines I, II, III, IV were updated from 2007 to 2010. Some of the files here are open to only those who are registered as NFIC subscribing members at this site and are not visible. Older files and documents under some of the same titles are available at other websites, and the NFIC archives in some cases, but have not been updated.

Additional files are being generated including an index of all known individuals called to Grand Juries, suspects, witnesses at the 2004 Arlo Looking Cloud trial or mentioned in testimony, or are found within U.S. extradition documents in the case of John Boy Patton Graham. On Aug. 20, 2008 the U.S Indicted Richard "Dick" Marshal for aiding and abetting her murder. He was acquitted during April 2010 of providing the gun used to murder Aquash. On September 10, 2009 the state of South Dakota indicted John Graham and Thelma Rios (Conroy-Hill on murder, rape and kidnapping charges. Thelma Rios pled guilty during November 2010 to the charge of kidnapping. John Graham was found guilty of aiding and abetting felony murder on Dec. 10, 2010 and sentenced to life in state prison.

Additional indictments were predicted for those involved in the kidnapping and interrogation of Aquash at the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee offices headed by Madonna Gilbert ThunderHawk. Lorelie Means and Atty Bruce Ellison in December of 1975. Thelma Rios claimed she initiated the request to Denver to take Annie Mae in custody at their request. The US Government was also probing the relationship between Thunderhawk and Lorelie Means and security members associated with AIM leadership and the death of Black Civil Rights worker Perry Ray Robinson Jr. inside Wounded Knee 1973.