Occupation of Alcatraz
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The Occupation of Alcatraz was a 19-month long occupation of Alcatraz Island and its prison complex, then classified as abandoned surplus federal land, by 89 American Indians and their supporters. The
Markings from the occupation of Alcatraz as it appeared in 2010
Graffiti on the water tower
Markings from the occupation, featuring a Navajo greeting, "Yata Hey"
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United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles off the coast of San Francisco, California,
Occupation of Alcatraz
…similar surveillance operations. In 1963, Belva Cottier (Rosebud Lakota), a social worker living in the San Francisco Bay Area, read an article that the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was to be closed and the property given to the City of San Francisco. Remembering the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, she and her cousin, Richard McKenzie…
The prison sits atop Alcatraz Island, 2013
The main cellhouse on Alcatraz
Entrance
Alcatraz laundry service