The Unquiet Grave, Steve Hendricks
The Unquiet Grave, Steve Hendricks
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The Unquiet Grave
The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country

Author: Steve Hendricks

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 13 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/13/2022


Synopsis

In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota—or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull.

Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up that stretches from the plains of South Dakota to the polished corridors of Washington, D.C.

Author Steve Hendricks sued the FBI over several years to pry out thousands of unseen documents about the events. His work was supported by the prestigious Fund for Investigative Journalism. Hendricks, who has freelanced for The Nation, Boston Globe, Orion, and public radio, is one of those rare reporters whose investigative tenacity is accompanied by grace with the written word.

About Steve Hendricks

Steve Hendricks is an investigative journalist who has written for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, the Boston Globe, DoubleTake, and Seattle Weekly. Educated at Yale, he spent four years researching The Unquiet Grave while living in Montana. He now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pabgo on January 23, 2021

I remember the unrest of the Pine Ridge Sioux inhabitants as something I followed as a young person back in the nineteen seventies. The occupation of the Wounded Knee historical site prompted me to subscribe to AIM newsletters, as well as delve into American history. The more I learned about the hi......more

Goodreads review by Socraticgadfly on August 07, 2014

This is an excellent successor to Matthiessen's "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" and breaks ground well beyond that book. First, despite the most arduous FBI efforts to fight his every FOIA request, to do CIA-level blackouts on what it did release and more, Hendricks has more information at hand. He's......more

Goodreads review by Ami on October 12, 2014

This novel covers the great many civil rights violations experienced the Native Americans in the 1960's and 1970's. In the early chapters, Hendricks discussed the murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a member of the AIM movement who was later feared to be an informant for the FBI. Aquash was a freedom......more

Goodreads review by Jo on June 09, 2014

I've just finished this book and I'm seething with anger at the events Hendricks describes. This is a searing indictment of the FBI's creation of a poisonous atmosphere of paranoia in the American Indian Movement that had fatal consequences (as did the FBI's practically identical attacks on the Blac......more

Goodreads review by Rena on May 04, 2009

This is a great follow up to Peter Mathiasson's In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. It goes into more detail about the FBI and BIA coverups of Anna Mae Aquash's death as well as the poorly conducted trial of Leonard Peltier, and brings all the unsolved murders and political machinations up to date. Steve......more