The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island was a singular moment in galvanizing the American Indian Movement. Indian activists from the fishing rights battles in the Pacific Northwest recognized it as such, and traveled from Puget Sound to support them. Dr. Dean Chavers, a participant in that struggle, writes in Indian Country Today about his experience with American Indian activism on San Francisco Bay.
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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