American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969 as a show of protest against the United States's constant choice to overlook or misrecognize rights and responsibilities set by treaties between tribes and the US government. Additionally (and more importantly) it was a retaliation against the theft of tribal land by the federal government. Protesters believed that if the federal government could illicitly occupy tribal lands, tribal members could just the same occupy federal lands.
The Occupation of Alcatraz was led by the Indians of All Tribes (IAT) as a form of inter-tribal solidarity. It preceded the more famous occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota during the early 1970s. That protest was organized primarily by the American Indian Movement (AIM).
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-beads were a thing they did because of religion
-beads signified power or importance or wisdom
-beads of a certain colour/shape/size might mean certain things, e. g. 'I have children' or I am a woman/man'(there might be different beads from different genders/types of people)
-they cared about how they looked
-they had festivals where they got dressed up
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It convinced the British that the Americans weren't worth fighting against anymore.
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