Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz

In Of All Tribes, Abenaki children's book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism.

"Alcatraz is not an island. It's an idea." -activist Richard Oakes (Akwesasne Mohawk)

On the night of November 20, 1969-the end of one of the most tumultuous decades in American history-eighty-nine young Native American activists crossed the San Francisco Bay under cover of darkness, calling them...