Hopi History: The Story of the Alcatraz Inmates is authored by Wendy Holliday, Historian with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office. It was first published in Tutuveni on December 15, 1995. Her article traces the government’s Indian policy and the effect it had on the people of Hopi in the late 19th century, culminating with the imprisonment of 19 Hopi men by the U.S. Army on Alcatraz Island in 1895.

Craig Glassner, a ranger with the National Park Service on Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, wrote Alcatraz History: The Story of the Indian Inmates. It tells of the Army’s use of Alcatraz as the nation's first permanent military prison (1859 to 1933), and focuses on the imprisonment of a number of Native Americans from 1873 to 1895, including the incarceration of 19 Hopi "unfriendlys" in Alcatraz’s Lower Prison.

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