Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
series not in production
Ended
Documentary
Crime
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 4
avg.Runtime | min
First EP | 2024-11-26
Last EP | 2024-11-26
Overview
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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.
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Produced by
Onyx Collective
Laylow Pictures
Nine Stories Productions
Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 2024-11-26
1
Americanize You
2024-11-26
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.
2
Wounded Knee 1973
2024-11-26
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.
3
Exposure
2024-11-26
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.
4
A Cry for Justice
2024-11-26
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.
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