Occupying Alcatraz: Native American Activists Demand Change

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Brown scrambled up a stone railing and flashed a tin tray in the air three times to signal success to anyone watching back on the mainland The other Native Americans back near the boats whooped RUSSELL MEANS hollered and danced Russell Means was born in unison on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota But their euphoria was on November 10 1939 His short lived While the family moved to California when he was a young child group was busy celebrating His brief trip to Alcatraz with Aylworth had called his his father in 1964 when he was 25 years old inspired Means boss Richard Willard to stay active in the Native American rights movement In the last acting warden of 1973 he and other leaders of Alcatraz at Willard's home a Minnesota based group the American Indian Movement in Concord California AIM commanded a 71 day When Willard arrived armed standoff with Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on the island he ordered agents and federal troops at Wounded Knee a town the intruders to leave at where a massacre of Native once Fight it in court Americans by US troops took place in 1890 The siege Don't fight it out here he resulted in hundreds of arrests and the deaths of two bellowed You got no right protesters In 1987 Means to trespass here You're campaigned to become the Libertarian Party's candidate violating the law and I'm for the US presidency but he lost to Ron Paul telling you somebody's going to get hurt