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Yeah. Mhm. Never. Repeat. Yeah, Mhm. They're all right. We can paint rolling in a fight. Yeah, Go write a new group. It was pretty chilly off most of them, I think. Our coldest conservatives about people coming and getting getting soft. This island. How are you

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doing In terms of food or medical? We don't have anything we had. We had two loaves of bread and we ate them just as fast as we're hungry. We can you sum up for me? What do you hope to accomplish by this occupation? Well, we'll just

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take over this island. We actually we hope to take over this island for for Indian people as a cultural center, National cultural center for Indian people. Last last paragraph, paragraph sums it up. Beautiful in the name of all Indians. Therefore, we reclaim this island for our

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for all Indian nations. For all these reasons, we feel this claim is just and proper and that this land should rightfully be granted to us for as long as the river shell running the sun shall shine. Shell sign Signed Indians of all tribes, November 1969 San

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Francisco, California with the actual island actually filed a formal claim on the island. Yes, we will go to the board. Well, at this time, I believe there's already been a letter somewhat similar to this proclamation that's already been issued to the President. United States, one to

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the United Nations. I know, Richard. You're going to the Board of Supervisors. How soon will you be going to the board? Just as soon as we get back. What's this nation you want to establish out here? An American Indian nation comprising of all the all the

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tribes, including the Alaskans? Why Alcatraz? Everybody can see it on one end of the country. You have the Statue of Liberty. And this is just the opposite. We have a true reality of liberty. Do you think you have the legal right to claim the island? And

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why? What are you talking about? Two different societies now. And my society or any Indian society. Yes, we do so with Mr Harmon. No, I haven't. I probably will as soon as I get Richard, can you describe for me again what it is you hope to

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build out here on Alcatraz? The build a nation? We hope to build an example that our mecca a school where other Indians can come to and just learn. I have a proclamation. I'd like to read you. We, uh, the Native Americans reclaim this land known as

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Alcatraz Island in the name of all American Indians. By right of discovery, we wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with the Caucasian inhabitants of this land and hereby offer the following treaty. We will purchase, said Alcatraz Island for $24 and glass beads and

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red cloth, a precedent set by the white man's purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago. We know that $24 and trade goods for the 16 acres is more than was paid when Manhattan Island was sold. But we know that land values have risen over

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the years. Our offer of $20.24 per acre is greater than 47 cents per acre. The white man is now paying the California Indians for their land. We will give to the inhabitants of this island a portion of that land for their own, to be held in

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trust by the American Indian government for as long as the sun shall rise in the rivers. Go down to the sea to be administered by the Bureau of Caucasian Affairs. Richard presenting this to me now? Yes, sir. You know that the General Service Administration is the

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custodian of the island. And you probably were also that the city of San Francisco, as well as the Department of Interior, is trying to work out a future for the island. Have you contacted either of them with your thoughts? We've just gotten on the island. We've

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just done all these things simultaneously. Okay, So in presenting this to me, what do you want me to do with it? Hold onto it, react to it? Okay. What are your plans now? I guess we can go home and you need a lift. Sure do. We

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will further guide the inhabitants of the proper way of living. We will offer them our religion, our education, our life ways in order to help them achieve our level of civilization and thus raise them at all our white brothers up from their savage and unhappy state.

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We offer this treaty in good faith and wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with all white men. We feel that the so called further it would be fitting in symbolic that ships from all over the world tiny island would be a symbol of

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the great land once ruled by free and noble Indians and to this weave around the island. So we know this is all to be true. The use is to be made of this Alcatraz Island. Since the San Francisco Indian Center burned down, there is no place

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for Indians to assemble and carry on our tribal life here in the right white man city. Therefore, we plan to develop on this island. Several Indian institutes, one a center for Native American studies will be developed, which will train a document of the Trail of Tears,

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the massacre at Wounded Knee as well as the victory over yellow haired Custer and his army in the name of all Indians. Therefore, we reclaim this land for our Indian nations. For all these reasons, we feel this claim is just and proper and that this land

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should rightfully be granted to us for as long as the river shall run in the sun. Shell Shine signed Indians of all tribes November 1969 San Francisco, California in addition to that, were also claiming the the island outright on on on the grounds that this island

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does belong to us. Uh, due to a prior claim that was thrown out in the white man's court. So we feel that we should do it the Indian way and claim it outright. Uh, then if you do that, presume you're not going to go to the

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Board of Supervisors. We'll do that as well as the department interior. Which, of course, has that we've already affairs. I want to tell you something. Hey, Richard. Hey, Richard. Where you gonna be The same. Joining me on?

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Yeah, last we heard. All right, Maybe I can get some understand by the phone. Has anyone broken into any doors or anything like that that, you know, we found one door open, but on Canada damage was that to the lighthouse? Does that make it a federal

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burglary offense? I don't know. Are you Mr Hart? We're getting pretty hungry. Just as long as I plan to stay here just as long as I have to. All of us. About the same. I think it's about time this government starts recognizing that we young people

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like to take over our own destiny. This was our land in the beginning. Also around? Yeah. I'll get what? At the same time, you know. Uhh. Why don't you come to our Can you bring some food inside? I Uhh How did you get out here? We

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came out on the boat. We didn't even think about what? We got water in a Yeah. Can initiative. Hey, elements here. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, The re conquest of Alcatraz Island was a successful one. The Indian occupation

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was a short lived one and a peaceful one. But they say they'll continue to press their claim for the island in the center. They could build here by legal means. That claim, they say, is a just one in a fair one. Mike Mills for news. Watch

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on Alcatraz. Yeah.