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Today in history: November 20, 1969 - Indians of All Tribes (IAT) begins occupation of Alcatraz Island, demanding That the abandoned site of the infamous closed prison be turned over to Native people. The Alcatraz Occupation lasted for nineteen months, from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, and was forcibly ended by the U.S. government.
According to the IAT, the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux returned all retired, abandoned or out-of-use federal land to the Native people from whom it was acquired. Alcatraz Penitentiary closed on March 21, 1963, and the island was declared federal surplus property in 1964. After a 1969 fire destroyed San Francisco Indian Center and Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel offered to turn Alcatraz into a national park, the protesters mobilized.
The occupiers wanted to transform the island into a center for Native American Studies, an American Indian spiritual center, an ecology center, and an American Indian Museum. The Occupation attained international attention for the situation of Indigenous peoples in the United States, and inspired a wave of militant activism among Native Americans.
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