Julie Johnson


Indigenous People’s Day on Alcatraz Island
October 13, 2007, 7:30 pm
Filed under: NGNO: UC Berkeley's News Portal, audio slideshow

ALCATRAZ — Families gathered at sunrise for a ceremony on Alcatraz Island commemorating the 1969 occupation of the island by Native groups. This year, they also celebrated the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the United Nations on September 13, 2007.

Watch a multimedia slideshow of the event.

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