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4 days ago · Despite not staying on the Island with Oakes and War Jack, Fortunate Eagle played a pivotal role by organizing transport boats and serving as a liaison between the Occupiers and the press. Fortunate Eagle details his experiences in his book titled Alcatraz! Alcatraz! The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971.
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- The Occupation
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- The Proclamation
We, the native Americans, re-claim the land known as...
- The Letter
On November 20, 1969, 78 Indian people, under the name...
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- John Trudell
4 days ago · Dr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribe and one of the most pivotal leaders of the Alcatraz Occupation. As the first Native American to attend University of California Berkeley, War Jack was instrumental in organizing the student-led takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969 due to her role as the head of the Native American Student Organization at UCB.
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3 days ago · The Civil War erupted from a variety of longstanding tensions and disagreements about American life and politics. For nearly a century, the people and politicians of the Northern and Southern states had been clashing over the issues that finally led to war: economic interests, cultural values, the power of the federal government to control the states, and, most importantly, slavery in American ...
4 days ago · Civil War Battles for the Year 1863. At the beginning of 1863 the Confederacy seemed to have a fair chance of ultimate success on the battlefield. But during this year three great campaigns would take place that would shape the outcome of the war in favor of the North. One would see the final solution to the control of the Mississippi River.
1 day ago · t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery would ...
5 days ago · Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780190860608; 520pp.; Price: £22.99. A renowned historian of the American Civil War era, Elizabeth R. Varon draws on her expertise in her new book Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. It is both a comprehensive narrative of the Civil War and a new interpretation of northern war ...
