Marc S. Boatwright Alcatraz Indian Occupation Collection

GOGA 35158

Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Park Archives and Records Center
Building 201, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Phone:  415-561-4807
Fax:  415-561-4810

Marc S. Boatwright Alcatraz Indian Occupation Collection 

Title 
Marc S. Boatwright Alcatraz Indian Occupation Collection

Dates
c.1969-1970

Collection Number 
Catalog number GOGA 35158  (Accession number GOGA-3185)

Volume/Extent /Cumulation
.2 linear feet 
 
Description

One box of photographs, flyers, correspondence, manuscripts, and legal documents from the Alcatraz Indian Occupation, 1969-1970.  Included are the Articles of Incorporation for Indians of All Tribes, Inc., Indians of All Tribes newsletters, and poems written by Indians while on the island.

          

Preferred Citation 
“Marc S. Boatwright Alcatraz Indian Occupation Collection, GOGA 35158,
 Golden Gate National Recreation Area." 

Index/Added Entries
	Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
	Alcatraz Island (Calif.)—History—Indian Occupation, 1969-1971
	Boatwright, Marc S.
	Indians of All Tribes, Inc.
	Indians of North America

		
Formats
	Fliers (printed matter)
	News bulletins
	Manuscripts
	Photographs

Processing Information 
Processed by Kim Sulik.
Completed in August 2002.

Folder List
 
Box #	Folder #	Folder Title/Item

1	1/4	PHOTOGRAPHS

Seventeen  5x7 b/w photographs (with proof sheet) taken by Marc S.
Boatwright on Alcatraz, [14 May 1970]	
			
	2/4	PRINTED MATTER

Two invitations from Indians of All Tribes, Inc. for a celebration of Indian Liberation, 31 May 1970.  Attached to the invitations is an ANS 
to Marc S. Boatwright from occupier Eleanor Lopez.	
		Brochure published by Indians of All Tribes, Inc. about the Occupation, 1970.	
	3/4	Indians of All Tribes, Inc. newsletter, Vol. 1, #2, February 1970.	
		Indians of All Tribes, Inc. newsletter, Vol. 1, #3, 1970.	
	4/4	“Why We Are on Alcatraz.”  Article by Indians of All Tribes, Inc.	
		Reprint from The Movement, p.10, Jan. 1970.  Contains Indian proclamation of 1969.	
		Indians of All Tribes, Inc. General Fact Sheet	
			
	4/4	LEGAL DOCUMENTS/CORRESPONDENCE

Indians of All Tribes, Inc. reply to counter-proposal of Robert Robertson, 3 April 1970.  2 copies.	
		“Declaration of the Return of Indian Land.”  Mimeograph copy.	
		Copy of H.J. Res. 1042, 23 December 1969, directing the President of the United States to initiate negotiations with Indians of All Tribes, Inc. to transfer title of Alcatraz to Alcatraz Relief Fund.  2 copies.	
		Indian of All Tribes, Inc. Articles of Incorporation, 15 January 1970. Attached is a letter from Earl Livermore, Coordinator of Indians of All Tribes, to Robert Robertson, Executive Director, National Council of Indian Opportunity, outlining health and safety needs of Indian occupiers, 11 January 1970.	
			
	4/4	MANUSCRIPTS	
		Three poems by Lone Wolf, “An Indian’s Song,” 4 December 1969; “Buffalo Song,” 30 November 1969; and “Alcatraz Medicine,” 20 November 1969.