"Alcatraz Is Not a Island" its a place for change!

Alcatraz has become a national and memorable landmark in the United States, but the Native American history has been reluctantly taught in the America’s education system. After analyzing the article “Alcatraz Is Not a Island” I came to the obvious conclusion that America’s government wrongfully took over Alcatraz by forcing the Native Americans off the island, so they could build. Before, the Native Americans used Alcatraz as a place of isolation for tribal members, gathering food, and hunting ocean life. The United States Government settled Alcatraz in 1847 transforming the small island into the first lighthouse in San Francisco’s bay, then a military fortification, then into a military prison that imprisoned several famous inmates, such as Al Capone, until 1963. The Treaty of Fort Laramie that the United States made with the Sioux Indians in 1868 stated that “all abandoned, retired, or out of use federal land” would be returned to the “Native people from whom it was required.” The Native Americans began to loose their cultural identity by the U.S. government taking advantage of their rights to land, resources, etc. Beginning on November 20, 1969 several different Native American tribes through out America joined together to revive their culture by occupying the island and demanding that the Native Americans be given education centers, ecology centers, and cultural centers. For too long the Native Americans were taken advantage of by the U.S. government, so thanks to the modern and more educated Native Americans that oraganized the protest on Alcatraz, their culture was saved. The takeover of Alcatraz was a bold move to make, but a necessary move on the Native American’s part. The progressive members of AIM (American Indian Movement) saved the Native American culture by freeing urban indians from civil rights abuses. The Native Americans invasion of Alcatraz was just the beginning of their positive movement.


QUESTION:
I have learned about Alcatraz several times in history classes,etc. but the AIM protest is rarely ever brought up. Do you think that our governments education system is altered to be PRO AMERICA?

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