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Alcatraz and Occupation: An Evening Discussion
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This event will not take place at Alcatraz. It will be at the Ortega Branch of the San Francisco Public Library:
(415) 355-5700
“Alcatraz is not an island, it's an idea. It's the idea that you can recapture and be in control of your life and your destiny, and self-determine your future.” These words were spoken by Mohawk Leader and Activist Richard Oakes in describing the 1969 Native American Occupation on Alcatraz. After it was a prison and before it became a national park indigenous people took the island for 19 long months. Fifty years later the National Park Service is commemorating this historical event and finding new ways to unpack the various ideas the Occupation and greater Red Power movement represented. Join historian Hawk Lowden of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and an Alcatraz Park Ranger as they tell the story of this historic moment and how the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation will be commemorated beginning this November 20th.