Vancouver, British Columbia Jan 20, 2022 (Issuewire.com) - Recently released, Man of Dawn: Vernon Bellecourt, Wabun-Inini (Wild Embers Press, Oct. 2021), is the first book of a three part series regarding the tragic murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, M'ik M'aq (1925-1975/76), a native from Nova Scotia. Annie Mae, as she was known, was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Her brutal death remains a controversy to this day.
The first in the Aquash series Man of Dawn is a true story from/about Vernon Bellecourt, Anishinaabe (1931-2007), an active leader of (AIM) from the early 1970s to his death in 2007. The book is a tribute to Bellecourt's role in Native history and with a specific focus on the FBI's role in the death of Aquash. In a full 50-page interview freelance journalist Antoinette Nora Claypoole interviewed Bellecourt in 2000 and asked the hard questions regarding AIM's potential role in the Aquash murder. Man of Dawn also provides some backstory on John Graham, S. Tutchone from the Yukon Territory (Whitehorse), who was wrongfully extradited from Canada in 2008 and is serving a life sentence in a South Dakota jail for the "felon kidnap" of Aquash. His recent appeal to Canadian courts was reviewed in early Jan. 2022. Graham will be the focus of an upcoming second title in the Aquash series, Picture Postcards of Railroaded Justice (release date March 27, 2022). It will include Claypoole's full 2004 interview with Graham. Contact Wild Embers Press, or visit our Facebook page, for pre-orders.
Man of Dawn is available at Amazon or Watersongs Books.
It can also be ordered at any bookstore in the U.S. and Canada and found in the EU, via amazon. Proceeds of sales of Man of Dawn go to the Bellecourt family. Railroaded Justice sales will go to the Graham family.
For free review copies, of Man of Dawn, or for more info on the Aquash series, contact wildemberseditor@gmail.com.
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