9 nov 1969 ano - Nov 9, 1969: 78 Natives occupy Alcatraz

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led by Richard Oakes, a Mohawk who directed Indian Studies at San Francisco State College, and Grace Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian, daughter of Jim Thorpe

by the end of November ~600, representing more than 50 tribes

They called themselves “Indians of All Tribes” and issued a proclamation, “We Hold the Rock.” In it they offered to buy Alcatraz in glass beads and red cloth, the price paid Indians for Manhattan Island over 300 years earlier. They announced they would make the island a center for Native American Studies for Ecology

In the months that followed, the government cut off telephones, electricity, and water to Alcatraz Island. Many of the Indians had to leave, but others insisted on staying.

1.5 years later federal forces invaded the island and physically removed the Indians living there.

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