Wounded Knee

Leonard Peltier’s lawyer releases statement after Arlo Looking Cloud trial

AUTHOR: Barry Bachrach, Attorney representing Leonard Peltier A major occurrence in Rapid City last week. A trial, if that’s what you want to call it. Many of you covered the murder trial of Arlo Looking Cloud. A 10-minute defense? Pretty sensational stuff. You didn’t find what you were witnessing at all strange? I did. I mean, who was on trial? The majority of the testimony presented had nothing whatsoever to do with Arlo Looking Cloud, but prominent members of the…

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Arrest finally made in the death of Native American activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Federal agents arrested a man in the slaying of an American Indian Movement activist whose frozen body was found on a reservation more than a quarter-century ago. Arlo Looking Cloud, 49, was arrested Monday in Denver and pleaded innocent to a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, according to U.S. Attorney James McMahon in Sioux Falls. Aquash, 30, disappeared in late 1975 from a home where she had been staying in…

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