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You Are on Indian Land: Alcatraz Island, 1969–1971

Edited by Troy R. Johnson, 1994.

A moving collection of photographs, this book offers a personal look into the days and nights spent by hundreds of American Indians during the occupation of Alcatraz Island. The book provides a stark but powerful visual reminder of this unforgettable grassroots movement of American Indian resistance and history.

160 pp.

$25.00 hardcover; ISBN 978-0-935626-42-5

$12.00 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-43-3

Table of Contents

Introduction
Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel

American Indian Activism and Transformation: Lessons from Alcatraz
Troy Johnson, Duane Champagne, and Joane Nagel

Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation
Vine Deloria Jr.

Urban Indians and the Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Adam (Nordwall) Fortunate Eagle

Alcatraz Recollections
Tim Findley

Reflections of Alcatraz
LaNada Boyer

Indian Students and Reminiscences of Alcatraz
Steve Talbot

Personal Memories of Alcatraz, 1969
Luis S. Kemnitzer

A Reminiscence of the Alcatraz Occupation
Edward D. Castillo

The Native Struggle for Liberation: Alcatraz
Jack D. Forbes

Alcatraz Is Not an Island
Lenny Foster

From the Reservation to the Smithsonian via Alcatraz
George P. Horse Capture

The Government and the Indians: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1969–71
John Garvey and Troy Johnson

American Indian Placemaking on Alcatraz, 1969–71
Robert A. Rundstrom

The Eagles I Fed Who Did Not Love Me
Woody Kipp

Reflections of an AIM Activist: Has It All Been Worth It?
Karren Baird-Olson

The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s
Ward Churchill

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