The University of New Mexico

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Media Contact: Laurie Mellas, 277-5915

Oct. 10, 2006

Author at UNM to talk about FBI and American Indians
Book investigates death of activist Anna Mae Aquash

Steve Hendricks, investigative reporter and author, will give a talk “The FBI versus American Indians” at the University of New Mexico 's Native American studies department, Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 1 p.m., Mesa Vista Hall, 3rd floor.

Hendricks is author of “The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country (Avalon, 2006),” detailing events surrounding the 1976 death of Anna Mae Aqaush, an American Indian activist found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota.

First-time author Steve Hendricks sued the FBI over the course of several years in his effort to secure copies of thousands of unseen documents about events surrounding Aquash's death. He won a grant for his extensive interviewing and research from the prestigious Fund for Investigative Journalism.

According to the book's publishing company, Avalon Publishing Group, “Hendricks' book opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and exposes a secret war against American Indians.”

Hendricks, who was educated at Yale, spent four years researching “The Unquiet Grave” while living in Montana.

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