When Native American activists took control of Alcatraz for 18 months

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1969

John Trudell, a Sioux activist, looks out across San Francisco Bay from a teepee on Alcatraz Island.

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On March 8, 1964, a small group of Sioux made landfall on Alcatraz Island, which had been abandoned as a prison the previous year. They invoked...

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