Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house, the aviary on the old John Barrymore estate in Beverly Hills, complete with six telephones, no working clocks, a zoo of stuffed animals and a desk full of middle-class repair bills. She has taken up the signal causes of her generation-sleeping-in with the Indians at Alcatraz, demonstrating against the ABM. But just as she has nagging doubts about her acting, she is not sure she is going about her reformist duties in quite the right way. During the shooting of Soldier Blue she organized a Moratorium Day demonstration in Mexico. She recalls comically...
...headed by John Ehrlichman. But the Shultz franchise of supervising the cash enmeshes him in policy decisions. The Shultz shop is currently analyzing the model cities program, advising Nixon whether to veto the new education bill, even dealing with such specific problems as how to handle the Indians occupying Alcatraz...
During recent months, Kahn-Tineta has travelled 11,000 miles on a fund-raising tour. She has visited Alcatraz Indian Island, spoken on many reserves, and addressed Indian groups across the United States. She frequently confers with Iroquois ironworkers who construct skyscrapers in the U.S. but live on her reserve in Canada...
...from people long accustomed to equating silence with dignity. But in acts as well as speech, the newly aroused Indian is no longer content to play the obsequious Tonto to the white man's Lone Ranger. A belligerent band of 100 Indians still occupies the abandoned federal prison at Alcatraz, which the Indians propose to use as a cultural center and are willing to buy?for "$24 in glass beads and red cloth." Says one of the invaders: "Alcatraz is still better than most reservations." Angered at the whites who litter their beaches with beer cans and broken bottles, Indians...
There are reports that the Government may be prepared to offer the Indians some land at Fort Miley, on the mainland near the Presidio. The Indians are amenable. "But," says one, "we want Alcatraz. We'd accept all of America back if it were possible." In the meantime, they have raised their own flag over Alcatraz: a broken peace pipe and a crimson tepee emblazoned on a field of azure...