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Twice during November, a small band of Indians put ashore on the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Twice, U.S. officials escorted them quickly back to the mainland. It was a different story the third time. Fourscore young Indians ferried to the Rock at night, and instead of being turned back, they were welcomed by Deputy Caretaker Glenn Dodson, who announced that he was one-eighth Indian himself. Thereupon, Dodson directed them to quarters in what had been the warden's house before the Federal Government closed the prison...
Last week the Indians, now 150 strong, made it clear that they are on Alcatraz to stay. Announcing that they considered their invasion a success, the occupiers and 183 visitors, including Eskimos, Mexican Aztecs and a representative sampling of American tribesmen, gathered to make plans for governing the newly seized territory. Meeting under the leadership of Richard Oakes, 27, a Mohawk who attends San Francisco State College, they discussed, among other things, the legality of their occupation and a center for native American studies that they intend to establish on the island. The Indians are willing to buy Alcatraz from...
Though the Indians' offer is ironic, their purpose is serious. The takeover of Alcatraz reflects a new militance among Indians, who seek to dramatize the injustices they have endured at the hands of white America, particularly from the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs. In a bitter parody of frequently broken U.S. treaties with defeated Indian tribes, the invaders of Alcatraz made their proposal for the few white caretakers still living there: "We will give to the inhabitants of this island a portion of that land for their own, to be held in trust by the American...
...Years on the Rock. "Just yesterday, I was No. 31048," Sobell told a TIME reporter in flat, lifeless tones that reflected the shock of freedom. For almost six years, he was immured on Alcatraz, the desolate "Rock" in San Francisco Bay, where the U.S. penned its most dangerous and intractable federal prisoners until it was closed down in 1963. Transferred to Atlanta Penitentiary, Sobell could at least employ his engineering skills, helping to redesign the prison's wiring system. After undergoing abdominal surgery in 1963, he was transferred to prison at Lewisburg, Pa., and allowed to study dental technology...
...hour prison revolt began that 38 state policemen and an Army tank could not quell. It only ended when Ringleader Green's daughter pleaded with him to surrender; after extracting some promises of reforms, he did. Some promises were kept, but Green was on his way to Alcatraz, the federal pen for troublemakers...