the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from ...

The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, from 1969 to 1971, marked a turning point in American Indian activism. They embarked on a three-masted boat, intent on claiming what they saw as rightfully ...

The blacksmith shop on Alcatraz once held vocational classes for inmates. Library of Congress Though the occupation seemed at first like a publicity stunt, the Indians had a vision for the island ...

In November 1969 a small group of Native American students and urban Indians began the occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Eventually joined by thousands of Native Americans they ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent ... covered with graffiti from the Native American occupation of the island, the deceptively calm ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands ... A little over a century later, in 1969 it became the site of a 19-month occupation by Indigenous activists in the name of Native American ...