Alcatraz Island means a lot of things to a wide variety of people. To many, it was a prison. To others, simply a fun and interesting national park. To birds, it’s a bathroom. And to a largely forgotten-about band of Native American activists, for a few years – Alcatraz was a home.
After it’s days as a penal facility had ended and prior to it’s modern day position as a famed tourist attraction (the only one in America where you can buy churros with loose cigarettes you smuggled in via various body cavities), Alcatraz sat largely dormant, floating harmless in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
All of that changed of November 20th, 1969 (nice) when a charged up group of Native Americans and their allies muscled their way onto the island and claimed The Rock as their own for almost two years.
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