"The American Indian Movement is here to bring back the recognition that we are still a people. Five hundred years of so-called civilization has not destroyed us. Wounded Knee in 1890 was supposed to end the Indian. We came back to Wounded Knee in 1973 to tell America that the Lakota Nation lives. We demand treaty rights restored." — Russell Means, 1974
The 1969-71 Alcatoz occupation prefigured Wounded Knee by
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Petition to the United Nations
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Lawsuit against federal boarding schools
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Pan-Indian seizure of federal land asserting Indigenous sovereignty
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Settlement of allotment claims
Explanation
Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz arguing under an 1868 treaty unused federal land reverted to Native peoples.