History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2103 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alcatraz
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The idea
On November twentieth, nineteen sixty-nine, Native American activists went ashore on Alcatraz, the old prison island in San Francisco Bay, and held it.
In practice
The Mohawk Richard Oakes reading a proclamation claiming the island for all American Indians by right of discovery.
Where people slip
Government forces removed the last occupiers on June eleventh, nineteen seventy-one, nineteen months later, the anchor records.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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