Native Americans at Alcatraz busily settled into their new ‘home’ on an abandoned missile base 6/15 and their spokesman said the party of 50 planned...
Marshals on an Alcatraz Island dock after they ended the 19-month occupation in a surprise raid on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California,...
Native American activist LaNada Means with an architect's model of a proposed cultural center on the first anniversary of their occupation of...
Native American activist LaNada Means addresses a press conference alongside an artist's impression of a proposed cultural center on the first...
Man stands before a brick section rising above the burned out infirmary on Alcatraz Island where an unchecked blaze burned most of the night and...
Led by Richard Oakes who led the invasion of Alcatraz Island, 12 Indians voluntarily surrender and submit to arrest after a sit-in at the Bureau of...
Man stands outside a tepee set up on Alcatraz during the American Indian Movement's takeover of the federal penitentiary. Behind him, the Golden Gate...
Occupants on Alcatraz Island, gather in front of the main cell block with the island's water tower in the background, during the occupation of...
Veste d'un membre du Red Power movement lors de l'occupation de l'île d'Alcatraz, circa 1970, en Californie, Etats-Unis. R
Grace Thorpe , daughter of the late athlete Jim Thorpe, is interviewed by John Trudell, a Santee Sioux from Nebraska, over radio station that...
American Indian leaders huddled on rain-swept Alcatraz in a pre-Christmas summit meeting to map strategy on their occupation of the historic island...
Leaders of the American Indian Movement hold a press conference at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary during their takeover in 1969-70. Leaders speaking...
American Indian elders from throughout the country joined the young occupiers of Alcatraz Island for a meeting they said was the most important since...
Actor Anthony Quinn briefs newsmen Dec. 14 after returning from a visit to Alcatraz Island, now ‘occupied’ by a force of American Indians who claim...
Two Native American activists beside a teepee erected on Alcatraz Island during during their occupation of the island in San Francisco Bay,...
President Nixon is the only substitute the Alcatraz Indians will accept if Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel cannot come to the Island to...
Chumash medicine man and actor Semu Huaute passes the peace pipe to the elders, while in the background Native Americans feast on Thanksgiving turkey...
The Indian invaders of Alcatraz feasted on Thanksgiving turkey and the trimmings 11/27 inside the barbed wire topped walls of the former prison's...
Young Sioux woman with a hot drink in a cell where she sleeps in the main cell block of Alcatraz Island during the occupation of Alcatraz in San...
Native American youths occupying the abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, enjoy a bit of relaxation by playing...
Coast Guard picket beat wards off from Alcatraz Island a small craft with sign carrying supporters of the Indian "invasion" of Alcatraz. Federal...
Coast Guard patrol boat comes alongside a boat filled with demonstrators intending to debark on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, a few of which...
Some of the Native Americans who occupied Alcatraz Island examine food supplies brought to the former federal prison site after the government lifted...
Indian demonstrators inspect prison galleries in main cell block on Alcatraz Island, after this former Federal peniteniary was invaded by Indians for...
Indian girl, one of 78 who invaded Alcataz Island for the second time within two weeks, paints sign reading "Indian American Land" on wall of...
Group of Sioux Indians protest at Alcatraz in an attempt to claim the land under the allowances provided in an 1868 treaty with the U.S. Government.