Thirty Years Ago, American Indians Staked a Claim on Alcatraz Island. | November 8, 1999

“What we did was pretty significant to me in many ways and I learned very much from it. I learned how we could function as a community. No one really expected the media thing to happen the way it did. It went global. It was an adventure.”

“We were the statistics America was talking about. The 44 year life expectancy, all this stuff.” 

“Whatever our struggle was about, whatever it is about, I learned that it’s the right struggle.” ~

SOURCE: Santa Cruz Sentinel