Occupying Alcatraz
Subtitle: Native American activists demand change
By: by Alexis Burling ; content consultant, Robert Warrior
Contributors: Warrior, Robert Allen, consultant
Series: Hidden heroes; Hidden heroes
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781680783896
Subjects: Politics and government; Government relations; Indians of North America; Prisons; Military prisons; Civil rights; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California; Juvenile literature; History
Other titles: Native American activists demand change
Description: Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.

Ages 12-17.