In the fall of 1974, before the election for state attorney general, for which Janklow was the Republican Party candidate, AIM leader Dennis Banks encouraged Eagle Deer to testify to the tribal court about the rape case to try to gain justice. Anna Mae Aquash, another high-ranking AIM member, had located Eagle Deer in Iowa, where she had gone to escape rumors about the incident. Aquash persuaded the young woman to return to the Rosebud Reservation to testify.Dennis Banks with Richard Erdoes, Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement, Oklahoma University Press, 2005, pp. 270-283, accessed 29 June 2011
