By Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle: The previous Portals told the story of how 78 Native Americans, most of them college students, sailed to the former federal prison on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 1969, disembarked and claimed it. Calling themselves “Indians of All Tribes,” they prepared to hold the island until their demands were met.
How the Native American occupation of Alcatraz turned sour
From the San Francisco Chronicle, by Gary Kamiya
The previous Portals told the story of how 78 Native Americans, most of them college students, sailed to the former federal prison on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 1969, disembarked and claimed it. Calling themselves “Indians of All Tribes,” they prepared to hold the island until their demands were met.
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