Support On the Mainland

Grace Thorpe, daughter of Jim Thorpe, and Marilyn Miracle outside the Alcatraz Mainland office that served as the donation receiving center for the Alcatraz occupiers. I forget the guy's name, note the start of the Bay Bridge in the background. I took this in the spring of 1970.

Occupation Newsletter... Issue No.1

The first Island Newsletter edited by Peter Blue Cloud. I was lucky enough to be one of the contributors...some artwork here and there.

The Kitchen on the Rock

Here's Susie Tsosie (Hannan) and my mom, Rosalie McKay-Want getting ready to serve food to our fellow Indian occupiers. My mom was a student at UC Berkley at the time and i was a student at Alameda High School. I spent 9 months on the Rock from Nov. 1969 to August 1970...the most exciting time of my life. (photo courtesy of the Troy Johnson Collection).

Chow line on the Rock (Dec. 1969).

Eileen Conway, Ed Willie (my brother) and Margaret Lareiro. I forgot the names of the grown-ups in the picture. I took this in the Apartment Building where the Alcatraz guards families lived.

Ed and Linda just outside the Yard on Alcatraz

Golden Age of Indian Activism

One of those girls on the docks was my first girl friend in life.. tru story

Old Pic of the Rock

Here's the whole picture (though you can see it much better at http://goo.gl/erSWn). Photographed by Carleton E. Watkins. The "Octagon House" (middle bottom) still exists in the Marina District. Interesting in the online (high resolution) version are all the farms, and the (long built over) sand dunes, which is why there was so much damage in the part of town in the 1989 quake. (courtesy NPS-Alcatraz Island)