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Your Call: Native American activism from Alcatraz to Standing Rock

On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing the 1969 reclamation of Alcatraz Island, which sparked a national Red Power movement as Native Americans united to fight for land reclamation, environmental protection, human rights, cultural preservation, and sovereignty.

We’ll connect key activists involved in that movement with a young Native organizer. What can we learn from the Red Power movement? As we discuss race and history of the US, where are indigenous voices?

Guests:
 
Dr. LaNada War Jack, member of the Shoshone Bannock tribe, leader of the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, and first Native American student at UC Berkeley

Eloy Martinez, member of Southern Ute tribe, participant in the Alcatraz 1969 occupation, and member of a group that still gathers on Alcatraz for sunrise ceremonies on Thanksgiving

Isabella Zizi, member of the Northern Cheyenne, Arikara, and Muskogee tribes, and founder of Earth Guardians Bay Area

Web Resources:

The Insurgent Narratives Project: Original Organizer from Occupation of Alcatraz

ABC 7 News: New mural at Alcatraz will honor Native American struggle for self-determination

The New York Times: Antigovernment Graffiti Restored, Courtesy of Government

KQED: Kim Shuck, Cherokee Poet, Appointed San Francisco Poet Laureate 

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.