Here's Judy Scraper and Winston (2 Island residents during the Occupation) in front of the Family Apartments used by the guards on Alcatraz. This shot was taken during the Indian Occupation in 1969. They're standing on the Parade Grounds. The GSA has since leveled the apartments and now there's just a pile of rubble. I lived in one apartment on the 3rd floor of this building with my girl friend.
Courtesy of Troy Johnson Collection, here's some of my graffiti left on the Rock in the Main Cell Block: http://www.csulb.edu/~gcampus/libarts/am-indian/alcatraz/Collections_2.html) I Should've done something more profound like Kilroy Was Here or Custer Wore Arrow Shirts...lol. I believe this was left on the ceiling in one of the rooms below the Main Cell Block...in the dungeon.
Here's Woesha Cloud North, one of the Island residents during the Indian Occupation. This pic was taken in the dining room area of the Main Cell Block..around December 1969. The first few months the Island residents slept and ate in the Main Cell Block, after January 1970 we all moved to better quarters in the Guard's apartment buildings and houses.
My mom, Rosalie McKay-Want, taken on Alcatraz Island during the Spring of 1970 during the Indian Occupation. She was a UC student at the time of the Occupation, taking all her kids to the Island..all 5 of us--ages 5 to 16..
Here i am sitting inside the living room of the Warden's House on the Island. Note the layered clothing we wore to keep warm....2 pants and several layers of shirts. Our first night on the Island was here in the Warden's House.
