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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Friday, July 25, 1997 A-7 JS1 Exhibit recalls Alcatraz protest Original occupier Peggy Baxter, at far left, and Edward Castillo, in cowboy hat, joined in a ceremony to open the exhibit on the Indian takeover of Aka-traz. Below, the group listened to a prayer to the creator beneath "Indians Welcome" graffiti that dates back to 1969. $Mi EXAMINER PHOTOS BY CRAIG LEE the beginning of the resurgence of our culture, of our way of life and of our people," said LaNada Boyer, who was a UC-Berkeley student and leader among the original occupiers. Johnathan Lucero of Marin, who is of Apache descent, learned of the occupation via a letter from his mother while aboard an ammunition ship in mid-Pacific. "My first thought was, 'I gotta get back And I did," he said.

"It was great, wonderful but it was tough and cold and there wasn't a lot of food. We embellished the conditions when people asked us, though. The last thing we wanted to do was leave." "We've taken 20 steps forward and maybe 30 steps back since then," said Boyer, a Bannock, who holds a doctorate from Idaho State University. Boyer flew in from for the dedication from Washington, D.C., where she is a congressional fellow. "People back (in Washington) are trying to legislate us away even as we speak," she said.

Nevertheless, said Joe Meyers, executive director of the National Indian Justice Center in Petaluma, "there's a new feeling among Indian people, and I think we are getting away from survival and getting back to living within our cultures. Alcatraz was the catalyst." The government's declaration of Alcatraz as surplus property following the closure of the prison in 1961 coincided with the germination of the Indian activist move '1 i mwmmwmi 1 sV "mm umt. I III II Mini P1V M. A Dedication opens new display on Indian occupation of closed prison By Eric Brazil OF THE EXAMINER STAFF When Douglas Duncan, then a 14-year-old Oakland schoolboy, heard the news that Alcatraz had been taken over by Indians, he cut class, found a boat to the island and joined the occupation. "That was where I found out what a Porno was," said Duncan, 41, a former chairman of the Robinson Rancheria Pomo band.

"I'd always been looking for my Indian identity, but there was nothing about Pomos in the history books. It took those out-of-state Indians to help me find it." On Thursday, Duncan and more than 300 Indians, including 25 who participated in the occupation, gathered on Alcatraz to drum, sing, pray and dedicate a permanent National Park Service exhibit covering the 19-month occupation from 1969-71. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a 24-minute video, which premiered on four screens in an old ordnance room. It explains the occupation's genesis, life on The Rock for the occupiers and the aftermath in the words of participants. "The takeover of Alcatraz was Watch out for that tree! FOSSIL George of the Jungle'" watch with black leather strap.

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Dorothy Lonewolf Miller, one of the original 89 occupiers, captured the movement's elation over the success of its brash 1969 move in a poem: "For the North Wind is our brother, We share his bitter shock, A ii we are the warriors of Alcatraz, And we hold the Rock!" A surprised government was kept off balance by the occupiers for 19 months. At one time there were just five Indians on the island holding an increasingly frustrated Coast Guard and Justice Department at bay. The occupation was popular with the public for several months; but its popularity waned as original occupiers left the island and order deteriorated amid vandalism and violence. Unable to persuade the Indians to let the Coast Guard repair the island's lighthouse, which had been damaged in a fire, the government finally lost patience. On June 11, 1971, on orders from the Nixon White House, armed U.S.

Marshals and FBI agents took the last 15 occupiers, unresisting, off the island. Alcatraz has been part of the National Park Service's Golden Gate National Recreation Area since April 1, 1973. It is among the most popular sites in the park system, with 1.2 million visitors in 1996. 101 wmm i if Mail f'V- fi 4 at Productions, Inc. 4i 9748.

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