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la Puerta, Taos an artbook series
release date June 1, 2009

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Amalio Madueno's Lost in the Chamiso
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"In Sound Proof Rooms"
dedicated to Anna Mae Aquash (1945-1975/6)

a nEw pIecE
by antoinette nora claypoole

photo: "NW AIM, circa 1972" photographer unknown

"My eyes drift like a death walk.

Back into the heartbeat of a Pacific Northwest audience. An event myself and local activists organized: “Apartheid in America”.

One night that late winter weekend International Treaty Council person Tom LaBlanc brought an 8mm flick up from San Francisco. It was called “Brave Hearted Woman” and there I heard Annie Mae’s name.

Saw her death in the eyes of all of us, like headlights on an Oregon highway which Robert
Robideau still claims “did her in. That November (1975) bust here in Oregon was her death sentence, antoinette”. " read complete piece

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writings by antoinette nora claypoole

about Aquash murder/upcoming trial
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books
Who would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae (1999)

NEW ...Caves of Winter ...Murder in the American Indian Movement and other Realities

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from "The Border Crossing of John Graham"
by antoinette nora claypoole

Journalistic Civil Rights and the Trial of John Graham

antoinette contacted by U.S.Attorney
her position statement

John Graham Interview

WILD EMBERS updates

NEW...from antoinette nora claypoole

"civil rights of writers are very important in these times of Patriot Act realities. Currently I am stepping into a simple, important process of protecting our rights while adhering to/learning about the new "laws of the land". All this in regards to events in Indian Country, ie the upcoming trial of John Graham, extradited from Canada to the U.S. in Dec. 2007 for the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash. I believe media rights will be part of our new landscape...a textured fight or a raging river, undammed. EIther way, we'll witness and create like emdangered osprey in the reeds of summer's heat..." (more, click here)

peace
antoinette

top photo: "self-portrait, desert spring" 3.08

AIM graphic donated by Robert Robideau from Peltier files: "John Trudell in protest"

list of writings...by antoinette
BLOG update
interview

...poetry a lifeboat dropped from her. titanic. "

the lost works of Louise Bryant
a work in progress

"collecting voices was her passion.

BrAnD NeW
by antoinette

The Watersongs Project
compiling the lost works of
Louise Bryant (1885-1936)


"He would tell me the water was full of songs"
--Louise Bryant about Jack Reed
circa Oct. 1920

from a new piece
b y an toinette nora claypoole

“I would say that John Graham has seen the last of his days in Canada. Justice will have arrived at its half way mark when his trial is concluded.” --Robert Robideau, Anishanabe (Turtle Mountain and White Earth)

"....Like small pox in blankets in acts of genocide, boarding schools are where John Graham and his sisters were sent. In Canada. Not unlike anything happening in the States. During the 1950s and 60’s. And then the Bellecourt brothers and Dennis Banks emerge and create a movement-- AIM. John Graham found his way into the scene while looking for his lost sister. “She was sent to the states somewhere. Taken from our family” he explained to some of us. That chilled night in Vancouver, B.C. while awaiting the first of many verdicts regarding his extradition to the United States.

Graham found his sister. In the mid 1970's.

And then. He met Anne Mae Pictou Aquash (1945-1975/6?). And on the night of Dec. 6, 2007 in a caper more like a drug deal by Yale drop-out rookies, John Graham was “smuggled” over the Canadian border and handed over to U.S Marshalls. Like a Sitting Bull saga gone bad. Sent to the States on a charge of the murder of Anna Mae. .."

from..." The Border Crossing of John Graham"
http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.10.JohnGraham.1.htm

John LeKay's interview with
antoinette nora claypoole

antoinette's first book

about Anne Mae Aquash click here

Heyoka Magazine
interview with antoinette nora claypoole
by John Le Kay

Remembering Vernon Bellecourt

Vernon Bellecourt passed away Oct. 13, 2007. His leadership of the American Indian Movement is a legacy which will never be forgotten. Here, a tribute to him, an interview we did back a few years ago. His words speak for themselves ....

"The Elder Bellecourt: an interview with Vernon
click here

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EmBeRs MEnu

current INFO about
John Graham Extradition Hearings

NEW

interview with antoinette, by John Le Kay,
editor hEyoKa magazine

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la Puerta, Taos

the art of fetching sky

get into print?

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BrAnD NeW
by antoinette

The Watersongs Project
compiling the lost works of
Louise Bryant (1885-1936)

"He would tell me the water was full of songs"
--Louise Bryant about Jack Reed
circa Oct. 1920
(photographer unknown)

EmBeRs MEnu

(olDer PROJECTS scroll down)

spring 2007
Murder, Wrapped in a Blanket

re: new interview with Robert Robideau

summer 2007
Twilight Inferno: The Extradition of John Graham

winter 2006
Rock Garden Hearts
about John Trudell for Anna Mae Aquash (1945-1976?)

"Ed Little Crow" photo by antoinette

aNd

GYPSY FLICKER ROAD
new project, by antoinette
about her years "inside Indian Country"

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* antoinette claypoole's first book (excerpts here) Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae

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*varied chronicles on the American Indian Movement 1973-2007
"Rock Garden Hearts" Salt River Review

EMBERS NEWS Spring 2007

*antoinette nora claypoole Wild Embers author, co-editor
receives Oregon Literary Arts fellowship in Literary Non-Fiction (Jan. 2007)
for her work about Louise Bryant (1885-1936)


* John Nizalowski, biographer of Frank Waters
becomes Embers new author
w/a book of poetry, The Last Matinee, to be published winter 2007-08.

* Ed Little Crow, reading at Lane Community College, Eugene, Or. April 2007NEW
interview with antoinette, by John Le Kay, editor hEyoKa magazine




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