Gallery,
(for viewing) pdf,
(for quality printing) Indians of All
Tribes Newsletters
From their
occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1970
About these newsletters
The first three newsletters archived here are the complete set published from the Indians of All Tribes occupation. These newsletters included the most widely distributed broadsheets that circulated on the streets during the occupation, "We Hold the Rock" and "Proclamation to the Great White Father." The newsletters also contain the demands that came out of the inter tribal gatherings held on the island, solidarity statements, government counter offers, poetry and artwork.
Gallery,
(for viewing) pdf,
(for quality printing)
The 19 month long occupation included many trips to assist and inspire indian groups around the country. Trips to Pitt River and Pyramid Lake, CA. and the Nisqually River in Washington were three of the most significant. The Nisqually efforts concluded when the Federal Government conceded fishing rights to NW tribes. Pyramid Lake concluded with the federal government returning 45 thousand acres to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. (Listen to then President Nixon's Chirstmas Ceremony conceding that land.)
The Indians of All Tribes Newsletters are available in research libraries to graduate students but this is the first time they have been made available to the public on the world wide web. The fourth newsletter, documenting events that occurred at Pitt River, Pyramid Lake and the Nisqually River, is very rare. All four newsletter's were preserved by Teveia Clarke and Mary Jean Robertson who made them available to us under a creative commons licensing agreement.
I present these newsletters thinking that every nation-state is built on genocide although "settler" states such as the USA and Australia brought unprecedented levels of mass murder to indegenous peoples. Even so, the "final conquest" of natives is ultimately a supremacist cultural practice not a biological fact. Consequently breaking denial about the USA's foundation in genocidal mass murder opens the door to an honest relationship between all of the people's who have been brought under, generally by force, its dominion. It is this breech of denial that the Indians of All Tribes accomplished in the Euro-American community and it is this breech that US elites cannot repair. The breech opens the door to all survivors to usher the end of xenophobia, conquest and the world domination which US elites seek.
