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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Alcatraz Occupation (1969) w/ Julian Brave Noisecat [[Archive Episode]]
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[[This episode is from the This Day archives]]
It’s November 24th. On this day in 1969, Native American activists have staged an occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
Jody and Niki are joined by Julian Brave Noisecat to discuss the 19-month occupation, often considered the birth of the modern Indigenous rights movement — and how exactly the protesters managed to pull off the occupation of the i...