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12021-11-10T21:20:21+00:00AnonymousAlcatraz6Occupation of Alcatraz (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971)plain2021-12-02T20:26:59+00:0001, 01, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/1960 Day Family_thumb.jpeg2022-07-30T00:21:03+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491960s - Uprooted The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country4"Relocation worked to move Indian people into the urban core [while] white folks moved into suburban communities," Keeler said. "Relocation is about assimilation, but it's also very much about racism and who was entitled to what sort of housing and where." -In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian Problem." It would assimilate Native Americans by moving them to cities and eliminating reservations. The 20-year campaign failed to erase Native Americans, but its effects on Indian Country are still felt today.media/1960 Day Family.jpegplain2022-07-30T00:28:41+00:00Listen to Minnesota Public Radio: https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/11/01/uprooted-the-1950s-plan-to-erase-indian-country -The Day family around 1960-61 in northern Minnesota. Clyde Day crouches with Dorene. Charlotte stands to the right with Charlene. Sharon stands far left.Courtesy of the family1960sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.01.58 PM_thumb.png2022-10-22T00:03:23+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Native American demonstrators inspect prison galleries in main cell block on Alcatraz Island.3Seventy eight young demonstrators landed on the island before dawn and said they would stay to secure the right to build an Indian education and cultural center on Alcatraz, known as the Occupation of Alcatraz. (Originial caption and photo by Betmann Archive/ Getty Images)media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.01.58 PM.pngplain2023-12-22T19:32:49+00:00November 20, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.07.27 PM_thumb.png2022-10-22T00:08:40+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Native American activist LaNada Means addresses a press conference alongside an artist's impression of a proposed cultural center2LaNada proposes cultural center on the first anniversary of their occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, 20th November 1970. The occupation was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island from 20th November 1969 to 11th June 1971 when the United States Government forcibly ended the protest. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.07.27 PM.pngplain2023-12-22T19:46:23+00:00November 20, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
12021-11-10T21:25:55+00:00AnonymousPhotograph of Alcatraz2plain2021-11-10T21:27:42+00:00Anonymous
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.59.21 PM_thumb.png2022-10-22T00:01:40+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Occupants on Alcatraz Island, gather in front of the main cell block with the island's water tower in the background2The occupation was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island from 20th November 1969 to 11th June 1971 when the United States Government forcibly ended the protest. (Original caption and photo by Bettmann archive/Getty Images)media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.59.21 PM.pngplain2023-12-22T19:38:32+00:00November 11, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.43.22 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:45:02+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Native American girl paints a sign that reads "Indian American Land" on a wall of Alcataz Island in San Francisco Bay2Native American girl, one of 78 who invaded Alcatraz Island for the second time within two weeks, paints sign reading "Indian American Land" on wall of building at the former Federal prison site. The Indians propose "profitable negotiation" with the Federal government on taking over "The Rock" for an American Indian cultural center. (Original Caption and photo from Bettmann Archive/ Getty Images)media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.43.22 PM.pngplain2023-12-22T19:27:32+00:00November 20, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.35.43 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:39:23+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Occupation of Alcatraz Proclamation2On Nov. 26, 1969, just before Thanksgiving Day Indians of All Tribes, issued the following press release indicating the seizure of Alcatraz Island. The 4-page press release reprinted by the Journal of American Indian Education in 1970 indicates that Alcatraz Island will be used for several Indian institutions including: 1. A Center for Native American Studies 2. An American Indian Spiritual Center 3. An Indian Center of Ecology 4. A Great Indian Training School 5. Creation of an American Indian Museummedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.35.43 PM.pngplain2023-12-22T19:21:52+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.57.47 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:59:22+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Occupiers pose for a photo inside a cell block on Alcatraz during the occupation.2The only posed photo from the occupation. It was taken by Art Kane and appeared in the June 2, 1970 issue of Look Magazine. The identified occupiers in the front row, left to right, are John Trudell holding Tara Trudell, Annie Oakes, Richard Oakes, Stella Leach, Ray Spang, and Ross Harden. Peeking out behind Ray Spang is Joe Morris, and seated behind Richard and Stella Leach is Luwana Quitiquit.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.57.47 PM.pngplain2023-12-22T19:17:32+00:00May, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 5.05.17 PM_thumb.png2022-10-27T00:10:51+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: AIM members gather around an old pick up truck2The Pine Ridge reservation, where Wounded Knee was located, had been in turmoil for years. To many in the area the siege was no surprise. The Oglala Lakota who lived on the reservation faced racism beyond its boundaries and a poorly managed tribal government within them. In particular, they sought the removal of tribal chairman Dick Wilson, whom many Oglala living on the reservation thought corrupt. Wilson seemed to favor mixed-race, assimilated Lakota like himself -- and especially his own family members -- over reservation residents with more traditional lifestyles. Efforts to remove Wilson by impeaching him had failed, and so Oglala Lakota tribal leaders turned to AIM for help in removing him by force. Their answer was to occupy Wounded Knee.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 5.05.17 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T21:33:12+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.51.55 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:53:48+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491965-1971 Nuclear weapons tested in Aleutian Islands Landscape2Coastline of Amchitka Island, Alaska, 1971media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.51.55 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:59:51+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.49.57 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:51:38+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491965-1971 Nuclear weapons tested in Aleutian Islands Map2The Atomic Energy Commission begins detonating nuclear weapons on Amchitka Island, part of the Aleutian Islands of southwest Alaska. The island is currently uninhabited, but evidence of past human occupation there dates back 2,500 years. When Amchitka lacks the right geological conditions for some of the tests, the program is expanded to Nevada.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.49.57 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:58:14+00:001965Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.43.27 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:43:42+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964-75 42,000 Native men and women serve in Vietnam2On his last day of service in Vietnam in 1963, Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne and Arapaho) poses in Da Nang carrying his rappelling rope that he used to descend from helicopters to clear landing fields. Pratt is the designer of the National Native Americans Veterans Memorial. During the Vietnam War, more than 42,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives join the U.S. armed forces. Poor military record keeping may have undercounted the number. American Indians seek each other out and share dismay that stereotypes about Indians influence officers to send them out front during dangerous missions. The Vietnam Memorial lists 248 American Indians and Alaska Natives killed in action.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.43.27 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:46:32+00:001963Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.08.45 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:09:03+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491962 Apsáalooke (Crow) nurse recognized for lifetime of fighting abuses2Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, an Apsáalooke (Crow)/Lakota registered nurse, receives the President’s Award for Outstanding Nursing Health Care. In 1930, she began traveling to reservations across the U.S. to learn about the condition of Indian health and to advocate for political action. She witnessed the forced sterilization of Crow women. On the Navajo reservation, she found that gravely ill Navajo children were literally dying on the backs of their mothers, who walked 20 miles or more to reach the nearest hospital. These experiences inspired her to dedicate her life to fighting abuses in the Indian health care system.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.08.45 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:19:12+00:001962Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.06.07 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:07:28+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491961 Alaska Native organizations unify; call for federal recognition of rights2Three regional Alaska Native organizations—the Alaska Native Brotherhood, the Dena Nena Henash, and the Iñupiat Paitot—agree to affiliate. The new group expresses strong disagreement with the U.S. Secretary of Interior’s Alaska Task Force report on land claims and needs. “Citing the land recommendations as ‘inadequate,’ the Indian organization made a series of concise but far-reaching proposals of its own including changes in the current Native Allotment Act to allow securing several tracts of non-contiguous land, the need for leasing for native benefit reserved tribal lands and future withdrawals, and the need for Congress to define aboriginal land rights of the natives and to establish a forum in which their claims may be heard.” —Tundra Times, 1961media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.06.07 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:18:45+00:001961Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.24.28 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:26:39+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491965 Robert F. Kennedy and reporters with student in woodshop at Sherman Indian High School.1Robert F. Kennedy and reporters with student in woodshop at Sherman Indian High School. In the fall of 1963 the ninth and tenth grades were revived. Sherman Indian High School re-opened enrollment to other tribes, including California Indian tribes. The school again moved in the direction of a high school program, adding a grade each year until the school began graduating classes in 1966. In 1967 eight buildings were deemed unable to withstand a major earthquake. One of the last buildings to be razed was the old school building in 1970. The old cornerstone from this building and its contents were saved and placed in Sherman Museum (old Administrative Building), the last of the original buildings. In 1971, Sherman was re-accredited as a high school, and became known as Sherman Indian High School. The museum houses records from the school’s early days to the present. Over 2,000 catalogued items or artifacts of American Indian origin are housed there. These items were acquired from friends of the school and museum. In 1974, the Sherman Indian Museum was designated as a Riverside Cultural Heritage Landmark. It was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. At present day Sherman, the school hosts an average of 300 to 500 students who come from reservations spanning the United States. Any student who is a tribal member of a federally-recognized tribe with at least one-fourth blood quantum may apply to attend. The school is funded entirely by the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Bureau of Indian Education. Attendance is free of charge. The reasoning behind leaving home to come to Sherman vary. Some students attend SIHS because they live too far away from school, back at home, to attend daily. Others attend SIHS because they had negative experiences attending non-Native schools, and more than a few attend SIHS simply due to it being a family tradition. Sherman enforced a Reduction In Force of employees in the spring of 2009, due to budget constraints. Approximately 34 employees were laid off. Despite this, Sherman faculty and staff still work to provide a safe, healthy and productive site for their Native American students.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.24.28 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:26:39+00:001965Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.38.41 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T21:40:33+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Wounded Knee signs with spray paint1Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Signs signifying events that occured there in 1890 and updated by spray paint after the Incident at Wounded Knee in 1973, the year this photo was taken. The Wounded Knee Incident began February 27, 1973. The town of Wounded Knee was seized by followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM). The occupiers controlled the town for 71 days while United States Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies cordoned off the town.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.38.41 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T21:40:33+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.37.26 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T21:37:56+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Means announces AIM's settlement with the U.S. government1Means announces AIM's settlement with the U.S. government as negotiator Ken Frizzell of the Department of Justice and Oglala Lakota chief Tom Bad Cobb look on.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.37.26 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T21:37:56+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.33.47 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T21:35:37+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Occupiers escort negotiator Harlington Wood1Occupiers escort negotiator Harlington Wood (background, in trenchcoat) into the captive town on March 13, in a government attempt to end the crisis. At the time, Wood was Assistant U.S. Attorney General.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.33.47 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T21:35:37+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 5.00.14 PM_thumb.png2022-10-27T00:04:39+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: AIM member stands with Hostages1American Indian Movement Member Stands with Hostages During the Wounded Knee Standoff, 1973media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 5.00.14 PM.pngplain2022-10-27T00:04:39+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.57.17 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:58:54+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Oglala Sioux Occupy Wounded Knee1Oglala Sioux Occupy Wounded Knee. Ours Rapide. (Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images). The Wounded Knee occupation lasted for a total of 71 days, during which time two Sioux men were shot to death by federal agents and several more were wounded. On May 8, the AIM leaders and their supporters surrendered after officials promised to investigate their complaints. Russell Means and Dennis Banks were arrested, but on September 16, 1973, the charges against them were dismissed by a federal judge because of the U.S. government’s unlawful handling of witnesses and evidence. Violence continued on the Pine Ridge Reservation throughout the rest of the 1970s, with several more AIM members and supporters losing their lives in confrontations with the U.S. government. In 1975, two FBI agents and a Native man were killed in a shoot-out between federal agents and AIM members and local residents. In the trial that followed, AIM member Leonard Peltier was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. With many of its leaders in prison, AIM disbanded in 1978. Local AIM groups continued to function, however, and in 1981 one group occupied part of the Black Hills in South Dakota.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.57.17 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:58:54+00:00March 1, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.53.43 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:56:43+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: AIM members defend a blockade during the occupation of Wounded Knee1The day after the Wounded Knee occupation began, AIM members traded gunfire with the federal marshals surrounding the settlement and fired on automobiles and low-flying planes that dared come within rifle range. Russell Means began negotiations for the release of the hostages, demanding that the U.S. Senate launch an investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and all Sioux reservations in South Dakota, and that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hold hearings on the scores of Indian treaties broken by the U.S. government.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.53.43 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:56:43+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.52.48 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:53:03+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Russell Means, right, beats the drum at a meeting of the Wounded Knee occupation1Russell Means, right, beats the drum at a meeting of the Wounded Knee occupation on March 10, 1973. A photojournalist who managed to get inside the cordon made a series of images of the stand-off and negotiations. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, some 200 Sioux Native Americans, led by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupy Wounded Knee, the site of the infamous 1890 massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry. The AIM members, some of them armed, took 11 residents of the historic Oglala Sioux settlement hostage as local authorities and federal agents descended on the reservation. AIM was founded in 1968 by Russell Means, Dennis Banks, and other Native leaders as a militant political and civil rights organization. From November 1969 to June 1971, AIM members occupied Alcatraz Island off San Francisco, saying they had the right to it under a treaty provision granting them unused federal land. In November 1972, AIM members briefly occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., to protest programs controlling reservation development. Then, in early 1973, AIM prepared for its dramatic occupation of Wounded Knee. In addition to its historical significance, Wounded Knee was one of the poorest communities in the United States and shared with the other Pine Ridge settlements some of the country’s lowest rates of life expectancy.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.52.48 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:53:03+00:00March 10, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.47.53 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T21:48:31+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: AIM activist with rifle stands guard1AIM activist with a rifle stands guard in front of Sacred Heart Church with two freshly built snowmen after a blizzard at Wounded Knee.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.47.53 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T21:48:31+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.21.37 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:23:36+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491965 Robert F. Kennedy and reporters with student as he works at Sherman Indian High School.1In the fall of 1963 the ninth and tenth grades were revived. Sherman Indian High School re-opened enrollment to other tribes, including California Indian tribes. The school again moved in the direction of a high school program, adding a grade each year until the school began graduating classes in 1966. In 1967 eight buildings were deemed unable to withstand a major earthquake. One of the last buildings to be razed was the old school building in 1970. The old cornerstone from this building and its contents were saved and placed in Sherman Museum (old Administrative Building), the last of the original buildings. In 1971, Sherman was re-accredited as a high school, and became known as Sherman Indian High School. The museum houses records from the school’s early days to the present. Over 2,000 catalogued items or artifacts of American Indian origin are housed there. These items were acquired from friends of the school and museum. In 1974, the Sherman Indian Museum was designated as a Riverside Cultural Heritage Landmark. It was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. At present day Sherman, the school hosts an average of 300 to 500 students who come from reservations spanning the United States. Any student who is a tribal member of a federally-recognized tribe with at least one-fourth blood quantum may apply to attend. The school is funded entirely by the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Bureau of Indian Education. Attendance is free of charge. The reasoning behind leaving home to come to Sherman vary. Some students attend SIHS because they live too far away from school, back at home, to attend daily. Others attend SIHS because they had negative experiences attending non-Native schools, and more than a few attend SIHS simply due to it being a family tradition. Sherman enforced a Reduction In Force of employees in the spring of 2009, due to budget constraints. Approximately 34 employees were laid off. Despite this, Sherman faculty and staff still work to provide a safe, healthy and productive site for their Native American students.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.21.37 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:23:36+00:001965Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.13.06 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:13:58+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Preliminary Drawing 21Preliminary Drawing for The Great Wallmedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.13.06 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:13:58+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.12.02 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:13:09+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Preliminary Drawing 11Preliminary Drawing for The Great Wallmedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.12.02 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:13:09+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.09.17 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:11:16+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: A young brave from New Mexico at a Thanksgiving feast on Alcatraz Island1A young brave from Nogales, New Mexico, at a Thanksgiving feast on Alcatraz Island on November 27, 1969. For Native American students at San Francisco State University and other schools around the Bay Area, the protests and strikes at University of California, Berkeley during the 1960s, were a glimpse into how political activism could begin to address the injustices Native people had long suffered. In meetings at San Francisco’s American Indian Center and Warren’s, a bar in the Mission District’s “Little Res,” a plan was hatched to take over Alcatraz Island, whose world-famous prison had recently been decommissioned and its land declared “surplus.” The siege of Alcatraz officially began on November 20, 1969, with two major goals — to agitate for Native American self-determination and sovereignty and to establish a Native American cultural center, museum and college on the island. In the 1960s, War Jack says, “just to identify yourself as a Native person would bring immediate discrimination and racism. [Alcatraz] helped us re-establish our self-identification as Native people. People developed pride.”media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.09.17 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:11:16+00:00November 27, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.06.30 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:08:38+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Atha Rider Whitemankiller, stands before the press after the removal of the last occupiers from Alcatraz1Overcoming exhaustion and disillusionment, Atha Rider Whitemankiller, Cherokee, stands before the press at the Senator Hotel in San Francisco after the removal of the last Indian occupiers from Alcatraz on June 11, 1971. His eloquent words about the purpose of the occupation of Alcatraz Island—to publicize his people’s plight and establish a land base for the Indians of the Bay Area—were the most quoted of the day.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.06.30 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:08:38+00:00June 11, 1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.04.49 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:06:09+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Two activist walking through a cell block1Two activists walking through the abandoned Alcatraz prison during the occupation. The island, The Times reported, became “a focal point symbolic of Indian people.” Dec. 7, 1969.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.04.49 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:06:09+00:00December 7, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.00.21 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:04:30+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: John Trudell on Alcatraz1John Trudell on Alcatraz during the occupation with his family: his then-wife, Fenicia Ordóñez; Tara Trudell (left) and Mari Oja (right). At the time, Ms. Ordóñez was pregnant with the couple’s son, Wovoka, who was born on the island on July 20, 1970.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.00.21 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T23:04:30+00:001969-1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.28.51 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:29:08+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Four federal troops stand blocking the road to Wounded Knee1Four federal troops stand blocking the road to Wounded Knee during the standoff between 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the government, South Dakota, 1973. The AIM is demanding an increase in financial aid from the government for the town of Wounded Knee, the site of the last armed conflict between the United States government and the Great Sioux Nation, which resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota Sioux Indians.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.28.51 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:29:08+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 4.46.07 PM_thumb.png2022-10-19T23:52:30+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 The Fish-in Movement1Newspaper celebrating 25 years after the Fish-in Movement. The fish-in movement was launched in response to court and law-enforcement restrictions on North Pacific tribes' access to fishing, which had been guaranteed by treaties, but which had been stripped away during the 19th century. The fish-in movement provided a training ground for future activism in other parts of the U.S.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 4.46.07 PM.pngplain2022-10-19T23:52:30+00:001964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 4.54.04 PM_thumb.png2022-10-19T23:54:16+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 The Fish-in Movement Liberty Boat11964: First Actions of the Survival of the American Indian Association On December 23rd, 1963, some of the soon-to-be founding members of the SAIA marched on the state capital in Olympia, carrying signs that read “No salmon – No santa.”The Governor invited them in, listened to their complaints, and sent them away with only a dismissive, “Nice to hear your problems. Come back again.” The Native Americans involved in this protest were among those most adversely affected by the active state enforcement of fishing regulations. Many had been arrested on multiple occasions by state officers, and their gear had been confiscated numerous times. After years of waiting, they were completely disillusioned with the tribal organizations’ slow and halting attempts to resolve the fishing rights dispute through negotiation and compromise with state authorities. They saw an immediate need for confrontation and direct action in order to force real changes. Read moremedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 4.54.04 PM.pngplain2022-10-19T23:54:16+00:001964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 4.57.55 PM_thumb.png2022-10-19T23:58:22+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 The Fish-in Movement Protests1Native Americans and supporters stage fish-in to protest denial of treaty rights on March 2, 1964. On March 2, 1964, Native Americans protest the denial of treaty rights by fishing in defiance of state law. Inspired by sit-ins of the civil rights movement, Actor Marlon Brando (b. 1924), Episcopal clergyman John Yaryan from San Francisco, and Puyallup tribal leader Bob Satiacum (1929-1991) catch salmon in the Puyallup River without state permits. The action is called a fish-in and results in the arrest of Brando and the clergyman. Satiacum is not arrested. The Pierce County Prosecutor refuses to file charges and Brando and Yaryan are released. Whenever tribal members fished for salmon and steelhead trout off their tiny reservations, they were held subject to state law. State regulations prohibited the use of nets and traps even though these were traditional Native methods of taking fish from rivers and streams. Native Americans insisting on their rights guaranteed by Treaties signed by Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens (1818-1862), were subjected to arrest and prosecution. The right to fish became a unifying identity among the diverse tribes of Puget Sound, which traditionally were tied to natural resources rather than to real estate. The fish-in was staged by the National Indian Youth Council, a Native American civil rights organization formed in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1961. NIYC members participated in "freedom rides" and civil rights marches in Alabama and Mississippi, and applied their knowledge of activism and civil disobedience to tribal issues. Fish-ins were used throughout the 1960s to dramatize racial discrimination, pride in native heritage, and to assert treaty rights. In 1974, a Federal court ruled that the tribes were entitled to half the salmon in Western Washington.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 4.57.55 PM.pngplain2022-10-19T23:58:22+00:00March 2, 1964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.01.05 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:01:30+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 The Fish-in Movement police response11964: Police brutalize tribal fishermen in Washington State. Local police brutalize tribal fishermen on the Puyallup River at Frank’s Landing, near Tacoma, Washington. Hank Adams, spokesman for the Survival of American Indians Association, sends an open letter to incoming Washington governor Dan Evans, informing him that Frank’s Landing is being posted against trespassing and that an armed guard is being stationed to prevent opposition by police officers.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.01.05 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:01:30+00:001964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.09.25 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:11:37+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 Great Alaska Earthquake Rescue workers comb through a demolished home in the Turnagain area of Anchorage1On March 27, the Great Alaska Earthquake, also known as the Good Friday Earthquake, destroys the Alaska Native villages of Chenega, Old Harbor, Afognak, and Kaguyak, and causes tidal waves that kill more than 100 people. The death toll from the quake—the most powerful in U.S. history—remained low only because of the comparatively small population in rural Alaska.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.09.25 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:11:37+00:00March, 1964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.12.52 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:13:32+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 Great Alaska Earthquake police car under ruins1On March 27, the Great Alaska Earthquake, also known as the Good Friday Earthquake, destroys the Alaska Native villages of Chenega, Old Harbor, Afognak, and Kaguyak, and causes tidal waves that kill more than 100 people. The death toll from the quake—the most powerful in U.S. history—remained low only because of the comparatively small population in rural Alaska.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.12.52 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:13:32+00:00March, 1964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.42.49 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:43:46+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Sacheen Littlefeather accepts Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar1Sacheen Littlefeather accepts Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar Win for “The Godfather” (1973). Apache 26 year old actress & activist, Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee was invited by Marlon Brando to speak. Brando refused to accept the award as Littlefeather details because of the treatment of Native Americans today by the film industry, tv, and at Wounded Knee. Prohibited from giving her entire speech, Littlefeather is both boo’d and applauded. She met with the press afterwards. In 2022, The Academy Awards apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather nearly 50 years latermedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.42.49 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:43:46+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.31.33 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:32:03+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: An armed Native American in a trench takes cover between sandbags1An armed Native American in a trench takes cover between sandbags, the Sacred Heart Church in the background, during the Wounded Knee Occupation (also known as Second Wounded Knee) at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 7th March 1973. On 27th February 1973, approximately 200 members of the 'American Indian Movement' (AIM) took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee by force, declaring it the 'Independent Oglala Sioux Nation,' the hamlet was immediately surrounded by federal marshals, and a siege began, which ended on 8th May 1973.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.31.33 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:32:03+00:00March 07, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.40.57 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T21:45:56+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: AIM activists preparing for a purification ceremony1American Indian Movement activists preparing for a purification ceremony at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre during the Wounded Knee Occupation on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, March 3, 1973.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.40.57 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T21:45:56+00:00March 3, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.21.54 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:23:59+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: An armed man stands guard at a Checkpoint1In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. They were protesting the murder of an Oglala Lakota man and the failed impeachment of a tribal president that AIM members accused of corruption. The protests escalated into a deadly standoff that lasted 71 days.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.21.54 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:23:59+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.10.50 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:21:31+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: National Guard scramble a response to the occupation of Wounded Knee1Oglala Sioux Occupy Wounded Knee. Members of the National Guard get in armored vehicle meant to suppress the activists at Wounded Kneemedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.10.50 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:21:31+00:00March 1, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.06.44 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:09:53+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Federal troops walk on a road near Wounded Knee1Federal troops walk on a road near Wounded Knee during the siege of the town on March 20, 1973, as about 200 American Indians occupe the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, for the rights of indigenous people. The town of Wounded Knee, the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, was seized on February 27, 1973, by followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who staged a 71-day occupation of the area. Two Indians were killed and a US Marshall was seriously wounded.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.06.44 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:09:53+00:00March 20, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.04.12 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:05:40+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Three men sit in the back of a pick up truck (color)1Oglala Sioux Occupy Wounded Knee. Three men sit in the back of an old Chevrolet, two of them are armed. (color)media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.04.12 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:05:40+00:00March 01, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.51.26 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:02:59+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491973 Wounded Knee: Three men sit in the back of a pick up truck1Oglala Sioux Occupy Wounded Knee. Three men sit in the back of an old Chevrolet, two of the men are armedmedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 2.51.26 PM.pngplain2022-10-28T22:02:59+00:00March 01, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.05.42 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:07:20+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491968 President Johnson signs the Indian Civil Rights Act1President Lyndon Johnson calls for “termination” to be replaced by Indian “self-determination.” Congress passes the Indian Civil Rights Act “to ensure that the American Indian is afforded the broad constitutional rights secured to other Americans … [in order to] protect individual Indians from arbitrary and unjust actions of tribal governments.” “The Act is a highly controversial law because it authorizes federal courts to intervene in intra-tribal disputes, a power they never had before. Many Indians bitterly resent this development. Essentially, it does two things: First, it confers certain rights on all persons who are subject to the jurisdiction of a tribal government. Second, it authorizes federal courts to enforce many of these rights.”media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.05.42 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:07:20+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.51.24 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:52:41+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Belvia Cottier, Sioux, and a young friend on Alcatraz1A group of 78 Indians calling themselves Indians of All Tribes lands on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay and begins to occupy it in a demonstration for the rights of American Indians. Indians of All Tribes draws on powerful historic precedents of Native peoples taking a stand for the return of illegally taken lands, and they also usher in a new activist movement that draws attention with its mix of radicalism and American Indian traditionalism. “We moved onto Alcatraz Island because we feel that Indian people need a cultural center of their own. For several decades, Indian people have not had enough control of training their young people. And without a cultural center of their own, we are afraid that the old Indian ways may be lost. We believe that the only way to keep them alive is for Indian people to do it themselves.” —Letter from Indians of All Tribes, December 16, 1969media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.51.24 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:52:41+00:00May 31, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.48.59 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:51:12+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Kids on bikes with lighthouse in background1This is a photograph of Native American children playing on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. On November 20, 1969, 79 Native Americans, including six children, set out to occupy Alcatraz Island. The intention of the occupation was to gain Indian control over the island for the purpose of building a center for Native American Studies, an American Indian spiritual center, an ecology center, and an American Indian Museum.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.48.59 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:51:12+00:001969-1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.45.28 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:48:46+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Playing basketball near main entrance1Native Americans play ball games at the main dock area on Alcatraz in San Francisco during their occupation of the island in 1969. The week of Nov. 18, 2019, marks 50 years since the beginning of a months-long Native American occupation at Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.45.28 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:48:46+00:001969-1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.41.25 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:42:52+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Group by playground1Native Americans seek return of Alcatraz Island in 1964, under a treaty between the Sioux and the United States signed in 1868. The land was used for a prison throughout the 20th century but was never returned to Native people.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.41.25 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:42:52+00:001969-1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.39.38 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:41:10+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Hoka Hay!!1Poster stating that the U.S. government has forcibly taken back—“ripped off”—Alcatraz Island. “Hoka Hay!!” translates roughly as “It is Over.” The poster appeared in Berkeley, California on June 12, 1971, the morning after the removal of remaining occupiers from the island. A group of 78 Indians calling themselves Indians of All Tribes lands on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay and begins to occupy it in a demonstration for the rights of American Indians. Indians of All Tribes draws on powerful historic precedents of Native peoples taking a stand for the return of illegally taken lands, and they also usher in a new activist movement that draws attention with its mix of radicalism and American Indian traditionalism. “We moved onto Alcatraz Island because we feel that Indian people need a cultural center of their own. For several decades, Indian people have not had enough control of training their young people. And without a cultural center of their own, we are afraid that the old Indian ways may be lost. We believe that the only way to keep them alive is for Indian people to do it themselves.” —Letter from Indians of All Tribes, December 16, 1969media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.39.38 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:41:10+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.13.41 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:18:02+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491968 Aim members1In the summer of 1968, Native American activists Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, and Clyde Bellecourt gathered hundreds of like-minded individuals in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Armed with ultimate goal of forcing the United States to recognize Native American sovereignty, the activists formed the American Indian Movement group, or the AIM. As stated on AIM's official website, the American Indian Movement’s goals were: the recognition of Indian treaties by the United States government, among other goals such as sovereignty and the protection of Native Americans and their liberties. AIM has sought to accomplish these goals over the past five decades by bringing a multitude of successful lawsuits against the federal government with n the hopes of changing U.S. policy. Key events for the American Indian movement include the group’s formation in Minnesota in 1968, as well as the initial occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969. The movement also organized the “Trail of Broken Treaties” March, where protesters marched on Washington, D.C. Following the 1973 occupation by AIM leader Russell Means and his supporters at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the AIM became an internationally known and recognized civil rights group. The New York Times even ran a story that reported on the vanishing number of Indians, as well as to their unfair treatment by the United States Federal government. In an Atlanta newspaper in 1973, Russel Means said that if the Indian voice isn’t heard among the U.S. government officials, “the situation…will evolve into a bigger and larger Wounded Knee.” It seems that Means was indeed correct, as an FBI officer was killed in a shootout with AIM at the Pine Ridge Reservation two years later.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.13.41 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:18:02+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.55.54 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:56:12+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: 12 Alcatraz protestors voluntarily surrender1Led by Richard Oakes (R, forward) who led the invasion of Alcatraz Island, 12 protestors voluntarily surrender and submit to arrest after a sit-in at the Bureau of Indian Affairs office. The 12 were booked on trespassing charges, and released. The protestors had demanded that the Bureau of Indian Affairs local offices be abolished, and called for removal of Louis Bruce as bureau director.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.55.54 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:56:12+00:00June 11, 1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.02.51 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:05:19+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491968 American Indian Movement advocates for urban Indian rights1The founding board of the American Indian Movement meets in Minneapolis. Left to right: Harold Goodsky, Charles Deegan, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Peggy Bellcourt, Mr. & Mrs. Barber, Rita Rogers (seated), George Mitchell, Mrs. Mellessy and daughter. A group of 200 Natives meet in Minneapolis to found the American Indian Movement, known as AIM. Growing out of the late 1960s civil rights era, its objective is to protect the rights of urban Indians. The U.S. government considers the group radical. “The American Indian Movement office was the place to stop by if you needed a ride, an emergency loan, leads on jobs, or a place to live. Social services and political action were integrated.”media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.02.51 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:05:19+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 3.58.49 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:02:41+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491968 Government trains midwives for remote villages, First Alaska community health aide class. Left to right: Herman Moonin, Mary Wassillie, Mary Nikolai, Dr. Carolyn Brown, Anne Jackson, and Jennie Erickson.1Congress establishes the Alaska Community Health Aide Program to train health workers for remote villages and to serve in larger towns, at a ratio of 1 worker per 300 people. While the program is directed to the entire population of Alaska, most participants are Native women, who traditionally care for women during childbirth, or who come from families where women provide the health care.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 3.58.49 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:02:41+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 3.57.30 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T22:58:29+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491968 Oil found in Prudhoe Bay; Alaska Native claims delay pipeline1Atlantic Richfield Oil Company announces the discovery of enormous gas and petroleum reserves in Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope. With other companies, it proposes a pipeline from there to Valdez in south central Alaska. But development cannot proceed without Alaska Native assent, or a government settlement of Alaska Native land claims to most of the state’s land.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 3.57.30 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T22:58:29+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 6.00.29 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T01:01:46+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491966 Alaska Federation of Natives established to speak with one voice1U.S. Secretary of Interior Walter J. Hickel, far left, meeting in Washington, D.C. with people involved in Native Alaska land claims disputes. From left to right: Tim Wallace, President Fairbanks Native Association; Charles Edwardsen, Executive Director Arctic Slope Native Association; Eben Hopson, Emil Notti; Attorney Barry Jackson (standing); State Senator William Hensley; and Alfred Ketzler. Farthest back on the right are State Senator Ray Christiansen and Frank Degnan. John Borbridge is seated in the foreground. A statewide conference of more than 400 Alaska Natives, representing several regional associations, establishes the Alaska Federation of Natives. Its purpose is to speak with a unified voice about land transfers, land claims, and resources development. The group pushes for a comprehensive settlement of all Alaska Native land claims, which comprise almost the state’s entire land mass.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 6.00.29 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T01:01:46+00:001966Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.24.49 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:32:25+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 Billy Mills after winning the 10,000m gold medal in Tokyo1When Billy Mills arrived in Tokyo for the 1964 Olympic Games, few people knew much about the lanky US athlete. By the time he left two weeks later, he was a global star. The Olympics are full of inspirational stories but few are as compelling as that of Mills, the Native American distance runner who pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Games history and went on to become a prominent advocate of humanitarian causes and racial and social justice. Mills’ electrifying sprint in the final straight to overtake the leaders and win the 10,000m gold medal in Tokyo and his personal and spiritual journey to ‘heal a broken soul’ resonate more than ever in today’s turbulent times of racial protest. A member of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) tribe, Mills was born in 1938 and grew up in poverty on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His mother died when he was eight; his father died when he was 12. Mills – whose Lakota name is Tamakoce Te’Hila (pronounced Tama-kosha Tech-a-heela) – overcame racial discrimination, hypoglycaemia, type 2 diabetes, suicidal thoughts and his own self-doubts to become an Olympic champion and a leading role model and campaigner for Native American youth.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.24.49 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:32:25+00:00October 14, 1964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.33.45 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:35:48+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 Billy Mills Official Olympic Portrait in Tokyo1Born June 30, 1938 at Pine Ridge. Haskell (Kan.) Indian School. 1962 Kansas grad. Before Oct. 14, 1964, Mills was unknown to all but a few track afficionados. But on that day the unheralded Mills achieved what some sports historians called 'the most sensational upset in Olympic history,' sprinting past Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia and Ron Clarke of Australia with 50 meters left to win the 10,000-meter race in Tokyo. Mills' time of 28 minutes, 24.4 seconds was an Olympic record and it was a personal best by 46 seconds. After his victory, Mills also competed in the 1964 Olympic marathon and placed 14th. The first South Dakotan to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games, Mills was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1976 and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984. In 1965, Mills set a world record for six miles (27:11.6). He also held American records in the 3,000 (indoors and outdoors) and the 3-mile (indoors). Mills has traveled around the world as a motivational speaker. A movie of his life, 'Running Brave,' was made. Mills was orphaned at age 13, attended high school at the Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kan., then ran track at the University of Kansas, helping the Jayhawks win two NCAA championships. He was a three-time cross country All-American and was the individual champ at the 1960 Big Eight Conference meet. He accepted a commission in the Marine Corps and was given an opportunity to resume his distance running. While at Camp Pendleton, Calif., he upped his running mileage to more than 100 miles a week and earned a spot on the 1964 Olympic team.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.33.45 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:35:48+00:001964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.54.18 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:56:06+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491965-1971 Nuclear weapons tested in Aleutian Islands lowering a bomb1Cannikin warhead being lowered into test shaft, Amchitka underground test site, Amchitka Island, Alaska, 1971media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.54.18 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:56:06+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.36.42 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:40:00+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 Billy Mills winning the 10,000m in Tokyo1Billy Mills pulls off a stunning upset by winning the 10,000 meters Olympic race in Tokyo on October 14, 1964media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.36.42 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:40:00+00:00October 14, 1964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.24.31 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:24:52+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Sioux woman with a drink in cell1A young Sioux woman with a hot drink in a cell where she sleeps in the main cell block of Alcatraz Island during the occupation of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, California, 26th November 1969.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.24.31 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:24:52+00:00November 26, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.54.11 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:57:27+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: A man stands outside a tepee1A man stands outside a tepee set up on Alcatraz during the occupation with view of the Golden Gate Bridge in the backgroundmedia/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.54.11 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:57:27+00:001969-1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.52.20 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:53:53+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: View of the fire which burned most of the night on Alcatraz Island1View of the fire on June 2, 1970, which burned most of the night on Alcatraz Island, destroying the lighthouse, warden’s home, and infirmary of the former federal penitentiary. John Trudell (Sioux) stands in the foreground. He lived on the island with his family.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.52.20 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:53:53+00:00June 2, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.44.07 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:51:37+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Occupiers standing on the dock at Alcatraz1On November 20, 1969, a group of Native students landed on an uninhabited Alcatraz and reclaimed it as Indian Land, beginning nineteen months of occupation. Leaders included Richard Oakes, an Akwesasne Mohawk and Chair of the Native American student group from San Francisco State College and LaNada War Jack, a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes and Chair of the Native American students from UC Berkeley. Thousands of Native people from across the country joined the original group of 80 occupiers. The Indians of All Tribes demanded that the federal government recognize treaties with Indian tribes, they demanded a Native American cultural center, and they demanded that land be returned. As the Occupiers discussed their plans, they wrote messages of peace and freedom around the island as well as submitting formal proposals and architectural plans. You can see several of their messages and symbols recently restored here at the dock.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.44.07 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:51:37+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.40.10 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:43:46+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Protesters at the occupation of Alcatraz in 19691Alcatraz was taken over by American Indians in 1969 and drew 10,000 to 15,000 Indians during a 19-month period.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.40.10 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:43:46+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.36.51 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:39:15+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: People arrive during the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island1People arrive during the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, in November 1969.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.36.51 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:39:15+00:00November 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.36.05 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:36:18+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Native and Indigenous elders from throughout the country joined the young occupiers of Alcatraz Island for a meeting1Native and Indigenous elders from throughout the country joined the young occupiers of Alcatraz Island for a meeting they said was the most important since the ‘Ghost Dance’ days of the 1880s. When, in 1956, the Bureau of Indian Affairs launched yet another assimilationist policy, the Indian Relocation Act, the intention was to further undermine Native communities by moving youth from Indian Reservations to urban centers throughout the West. Instead, the opposite occurred. Native people began, for the first time, to find support across tribal lines among the more than 100,000 relocated Indigenous people who shared similar histories of Indigenous identity and cultural survival… For Native American students at San Francisco State University and other schools around the Bay Area, the protests and strikes at University of California, Berkeley during the 1960s, were a glimpse into how political activism could begin to address the injustices Native people had long suffered. In meetings at San Francisco’s American Indian Center and Warren’s, a bar in the Mission District’s “Little Res,” a plan was hatched to take over Alcatraz Island, whose world-famous prison had recently been decommissioned and its land declared “surplus.” The siege of Alcatraz officially began on November 20, 1969, with two major goals — to agitate for Native American self-determination and sovereignty and to establish a Native American cultural center, museum and college on the island. In the 1960s, War Jack says, “just to identify yourself as a Native person would bring immediate discrimination and racism. [Alcatraz] helped us re-establish our self-identification as Native people. People developed pride.”media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.36.05 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:36:18+00:00December 23, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.29.33 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:31:13+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Leaders of the American Indian Movement hold a press conference1Left to right, Richard Oakes, Earl Livermore, and Al Miller, leaders of the American Indian Movement hold a press conference at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on December 24, 1969, during their takeover in 1969-70.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.29.33 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:31:13+00:00December 24, 1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.25.44 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:28:58+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Occupiers moments after being removed from Alcatraz Island1Indian occupiers moments after their removal from Alcatraz Island on June 11, 1971. Left: Oohosis, Cree from Canada. Right: Peggy Lee Ellenwood, Sioux from Wolf Point, Montana.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.25.44 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:28:58+00:00June 11, 1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.40.18 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:41:27+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491964 Formal training and salary for physicians’ aides1Village “chemoaide” program begins training Alaska Native volunteers living in remote villages to help physicians by dispensing medicine, keeping health records, and updating traveling medical teams on health issues in their communities. Informally, Alaska Natives had participated in their health care for years, but the program provides formal training.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.40.18 PM.pngplain2022-10-20T00:41:27+00:001964Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.22.16 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T22:22:31+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Woodcut print by Elvin Willie1A woodcut by 14-year-old Elvin Willie (whose name is misspelled above) appeared in the first issue of the Indians of All Tribes Alcatraz Newsletter produced during the occupation. January 1970.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 3.22.16 PM.pngplain2022-10-26T22:22:31+00:00January 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.09.46 PM_thumb.png2022-10-22T00:11:13+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: LaNada with her son1The activist LaNada War Jack (then LaNada Means) of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes with her son, Deynon. In October 2019, she and other activists returned to Alcatraz Island in a “canoe journey” that honored the occupation.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.09.46 PM.pngplain2022-10-22T00:11:13+00:00May 20, 1969.Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.05.32 PM_thumb.png2022-10-22T00:07:09+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: LaNada Means poses with a proposed cultural center1Native American activist LaNada Means poses with an architect's model of a proposed cultural center on the first anniversary of their occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, 20th November 1970. The occupation was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island from 20th November 1969 to 11th June 1971 when the United States Government forcibly ended the protest.media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 5.05.32 PM.pngplain2022-10-22T00:07:09+00:00November 20, 1970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.56.45 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:59:05+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz: Coast Gaurd ward off supporters in boats as they circle Alcatraz Islamd1U.S. Coast Guard picket beat wards off from Alcatraz Island a small craft with sign carrying supporters of the Indian "invasion" of Alcatraz. Federal officials withdraw a Sunday afternoon deadline for the surrender of the island by the Indians, who had vowed to hide from marshals in the 12-acre maze of old buildings and caves. About 120 are on the Island.”media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.56.45 PM.pngplain2022-10-21T23:59:05+00:001969-1971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49