The Occupation of Alcatraz was a 19-month long protest which began on this day in 1969, when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied and reclaimed Alcatraz Island as indigenous land.
The protest was led by Richard Oakes and Grace Thorpe. The group chose the name Indians of All Tribes (IOAT) for themselves and lived on the island together until the protest was forcibly ended by the U.S. government.
IOAT claimed that, under the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the Lakota tribe, all retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land was returned to the Indians who once occupied it.
By late May of 1971, the government had cut off all electrical power and all telephone service to the island. Left without power, fresh water, and in the face of diminishing public support and sympathy, the number of occupiers began to dwindle. On June 11th, 1971, a large force of federal officers removed the remaining 15 people from the island.
A Look Back at the Occupation of Alcatraz, 51 Years Later
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When I'm sparring in BJJ (martial art about submission wrestling) I have this idea that, as a brown belt (proximate to a black belt), I need to go a little harder against people so that they have something to aspire to. Like if the highest rank people are pushovers, why would you want to work hard? Why would you feel like the art has anything to offer you? But if the big dogs are flipping you into the ground and threatening a submission every other second then you're like "oh, I see the skills I could develop if I stick with it."
Well, this weekend a 0 stripe white belt came into the academy (as new as you can get). I go with them because I mean to be polite and welcoming. I usually just give them a dilemma and have them think their way through it. Like if I mount them but also their arms are up by their ears, I let them escape. This person tells me "don't go easy on me." It's so the opposite of what I usually hear. People are always like "don't break me. I have a job. I'm just going to sit down so we don't do stand up." I had to make sure I heard them correctly. After confirming it I have no qualms about it because, unlike traditional martial arts, I only really learned how to do it without any emphasis on any kind of moral code. So I think it sounds like fun.
Comrades, I go at this motherfucker at competition pace. I'm looking for throws and, if they had stepped back at a bad angle, I'd yank them and they'd have flipped over my hip or shoulder. I don't even need to bother with submissions because I simply jammed my knee into their stomach until they tapped. I'm doing aftercare after the "submissions," making sure they felt safe, respected, and they still wanted to do it. I keep squeezing them instead of getting chokes or joint locks. If ever I didn't have a clear attack and I needed to think for a split second, I yank on something so that only I get thinking time and they don't.
At the end they go "so, do you have any tips?" and I come out of a trance. It's as if I'd just come out of the avatar state and all my past incarnations had been looking at them like they were the firelord. I don't think I gave them much of a chance to do anything other than tap. So I'm just like "you should keep showing up to class." Then, upon reflection, I'm considering how that was the biggest thrashing I've given out in a long time. Like I just did violence to what is essentially a layman and there's nobody to talk to them or myself - the coach was lower rank than me so it's not like I'm looking at them for a thumbs up or thumbs down. We just go about the rest of the class after that. They appreciate it and thank me on their way out, so it seems like I lived up to expectations.