The occupation of Alcatraz Island, which started 50 years ago this week, is considered a seminal moment in Native American activism.
In this photo taken March 26, 1970, Eldy Bratt, 33, walks down the lonely corridor of a cell block on Alcatraz with her son Peter Bratt, left, and one of her daughters in San Francisco. The week of Nov. 18, 2019, marks 50 years since the beginning of a months-long Native American occupation at Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay.
“I remember seeing these young Indian people from all over the country shouting to the world, ‘Red Power! You’re on Indian land,’” said Bratt, 57, the older brother of actor Benjamin Bratt. “Whoa, that was a game changer. I felt like I was finally home.”The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz, which started Nov. 20, 1969, isthat reinvigorated tribes to organize in the face of a U.S. government steamrolling over their land, their rights and their identities.
Donations came in from around the world, and the occupiers set up a clinic, a live broadcast and a school system for children on the island. “It really kind of showed what the focus of Native American people was and, basically, our rights as sovereign nations,” he said. “Treaty rights as opposed to civil rights, equal rights that the other minorities were pushing.”
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