In November 1969, a coalition of veteran activists and students attending the new Native American studies programs at San Francisco State University and Berkeley took over the unused federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Like other spectacular protests, the occupation of Alcatraz ...
It seems like the older we get the faster time flies or is it just my imagination getting the best of me, again?... ED CASTILLOis a well-known tribal educator and American Indian activist who participated in the historic 19-month American Indian occupation of Alcatraz (1969-1971). He's...