NS native activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash to be buried Canadian Press
Aquash, an American Indian Movement activist who was killed in 1975 in South Dakota, is revered among many Mi'kmaq in Canada as a champion of native women's rights.
Her unidentified body was found on South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation in February 1976 and buried as Jane Doe.
She was exhumed when tests determined her identity and was reburied in South Dakota. Her family exhumed her body again in April and returned it to Canada.