Native American interviewed about occupation of Alcatraz and abandoned missile base

Native American interviewed about occupation of Alcatraz and abandoned missile base

California
San Francisco
Civil Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Red Power Movement
Self-determination
Protest

This video was originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack and is in colour. It presents an interview which discusses the Occupation of Alcatraz of 1969. The video displays reporter Cecilia Pedroza interviewing a Native American man in 1971. The video offers a first hand account as to why the Occupation of Alcatraz protest was organized by this group of indigenous people. Within this video Dennis, the interviewee offers a variety of reasons behind the protest, including claiming back ownership of Alcatraz Island which they believe they owned, and also wanting to bring back their religion and spiritual traditions. This is an important source as it visually represents the voices of indigenous peoples and expresses their reasoning for coordinating protests during the twentieth century, such as the Occupation of Alcatraz.

Creator KTLA news, Los Angeles, Ca.

UCLA ‘Film and Television Archive’,

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/ktla/clips/native-american-interviewed-about-occupation-alcatraz-and-abandoned-missile

16 June 1971

Ellen Daly

UCLA Film and Television Archive

English

Visual - film

20th century California