High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anna Mae Aquash (also known as Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or, legally, Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Mi`kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975) was a Mi`kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became the highest-ranking woman in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States during the mid-1970s.