Praise for The Unquiet Grave

One of the 100 best books of 2006.
—Publishers Weekly
    November 6, 2006

“Best of the Literary Crop”: one of 12 recommended nonfiction books for 2006.
—Salt Lake Tribune
    December 9, 2006

One of 36 recommended nonfiction reads for 2006.
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    November 19, 2006

One of 100 noteworthy books for 2006.
—Kansas City Star
    November 19, 2006

“A detailed, exhaustive investigative account [from] the indefatigable Hendricks... An eye-opening, often shocking narrative fueled by the author’s outrage.”
—San Francisco Chronicle   >> Read the full review
    December 15, 2006

“Shocking... In its sweep, [The Unquiet Grave] is about the slow death of American Indian tribes across the United States, abetted by racist FBI agents, corrupt politicians, greedy lawyers and, to a shameful extent, many Indians themselves.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
    December 17, 2006

“The Unquiet Grave, a tautly written exposé, reads like a detective novel... The abuses [are] disturbingly detailed.”
—Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch   >> Read the full review
    November 26 , 2006

“This revelatory book is investigative journalism at its gutsiest, at its noblest. It is a documented portrait of the FBI as an un-American agency in its shafting of Native Americans. Must reading for anybody interested in our buried passages of American history.”
—Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
    Hope Dies Last and The Good War

“An impressive and important book, thoroughly researched and very well written.”
—Peter Matthiessen, National Book Award–winning author of
    In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

“An excellent book that reopens the wounds of Wounded Knee—and that provides important new information for readers of Peter Matthiessen’s long-suppressed In the Spirit of Crazy Horse... A blistering, important work...”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   >> Read the full review

“Hendricks’s swift narrative is riddled with judicial travesties, coverups, vigilantism, COINTELPRO-style tactics, mounting paranoia and lawlessness on both sides... Hendricks is careful throughout this harsh, heart-thumping account never to lose sight of the larger context.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   >> Read the full review

“The Unquiet Grave is a riveting anti-detective story in which the detectives—the FBI—are themselves investigated and their violations of the basic rights of Native Americans exposed. Few people know about this disturbing episode in our country’s recent past, but many should and will, thanks to Steve Hendricks’s fascinating book.”
—Howard Zinn, bestselling author of
    A People’s History of the United States

“With passion and elegance, Steve Hendricks has unearthed an ugly chapter in the FBI’s abusive history. Our hearts have been buried at Wounded Knee long enough. Dig ’em up and bury the FBI instead. Read this book.”
—Jim Hightower, bestselling author of
    Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush

About The Unquiet Grave

In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota. She died of exposure—or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet lodged in her skull.

Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave throws new light on the FBI and its struggle against Indians in the 1970s. But it also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up.

Steve Hendricks sued the FBI over several years to pry out thousands of never-before-released documents about the Indian rights movement and the government’s response to it. He won a grant for his interviewing and archival research from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. This was his first book.

The Unquiet Grave was published in hardcover by Thunder’s Mouth Press. It is published in paperback by Da Capo Press, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group.

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