The Occupation of Alcatraz<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on November 20th, 1969, a group of nearly eighty Native peoples sailed to the abandoned island of Alcatraz and occupied it. Once upon the grounds of the former federal penitentiary, the activists issued a proclamation to the \u2018Great White Father and his People.\u2019 The words of the document read, \u201cWe are on Alcatraz Island to make known to the world that we have a right to use our land for our own benefit,\u201d and ended with the emphatic slogan \u201cWe Hold the Rock.\u201d The occupation that began forty years ago today demanded that the U.S. government recognize Native peoples’ claim to the territory so that they could develop numerous institutions including spiritual, educational, and ecological centers. For the next eighteen months, the federal government waited out the occupation and never acquiesced to its demands.<\/p>\n
On June 11th, 1971, federal marshals arrived to remove the final fifteen activists from the rock that had been held…<\/p>\n
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"| the entire program The Occupation of Alcatraz Back in the day on November 20th, 1969, a group of nearly eighty Native peoples sailed to the abandoned island of Alcatraz and occupied it. Once upon the grounds of the former federal penitentiary, the activists issued a proclamation to the \u2018Great White Father and his People.\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> The Occupation of Alcatraz<\/strong><\/p>\n