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![20th Anniversary of the Takeover of Alcatraz](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Call Number: CD 597Format: CDProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
This is a recording from the 20th Anniversary of the Native American takeover of Alcatraz. Chuy Varela interviews various people at this event on their perspectives of this non-traditional Thanksgiving event and the continued Native American struggle. Also includes Native American prayers, chants and flute music.
![Statement from Wounded Knee](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Indigenous Struggles
Statement of purpose by Dennis Banks at the occupation of Wounded Knee. Articulates the position that the US government will not respond to unarmed struggle.
![Leonard Peltier - What Warriors Do](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Leonard Peltier
Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier discusses the responsibility of a warrior.
![Indigenous Resistance 1](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Indigenous Struggles
Buffy Saint Marie - My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying – about boarding schools and falsified history.
Joanne Tall – about the ongoing genocidal impact of boarding schools, how religion forces assimilation, the 1973 Liberation of Wounded Knee and how it impacted her and her people.
![Indigenous Resistance - Part 2 from Roots of Resistance](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Chant in resistance to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (the BIA), by Native-American activists
“Radio Free Alcatraz” broadcast by the Indians of All Tribes on Alcatraz in 1969 – John Trudell, Richard Oakes and Don Cooney.
Wounded Knee mix with sounds of the American Indian Movement (AIM) – occupation, shots, FBI radio messages, and the voices of Dennis Banks and Carter Camp. Wounded Knee was also the site of an 1890 genocidal massacre of the Sioux Nation by the US cavalry.
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