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GUEST: Steve Hendricks, freelance investigative reporter and author of “The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country.”

On February 24th 1976, the body of Anna Mae Aquash was discovered in the Badlands of South Dakota. Aquash was a member of AIM, the American Indian Movement. The FBI claimed that she had died of exposure despite the fact that there was a bullet hole in her head. Aquash’s murder is the departure point for a new book by freelance investigative reporter, Steve Hendricks. Hendricks sued the FBI over several years to pry out thousands of unseen documents on AIM. Those documents shine greater light on the FBI’s secret war on American Indians and form the basis of Hendrick’s book, “The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country.”. According to Howard Zinn, “The Unquiet Grave is a riveting anti-detective story in which the detectives—the FBI—are themselves investigated and their violations of the basic rights of Native Americans exposed. Few people know about this disturbing episode in our country’s recent past, but many should and will, thanks to Steve Hendricks’s fascinating book.”

For more information, visit www.stevehendricks.org.