History Week! The Native Americans Occupy Alcatraz
Is it National-Know-Your-History week? Nope, but I am going to write about history anyway! I think history is so interesting, I have really enjoyed learning about the past, all the terrible and beautiful. The most talked about seems to be terrible but that can be expected. I have decided to add a monthly history segment to my blog. My goal is to talk about lesser-known times in history, I am not going to be writing about WWII with you, that would be silly. I am going to start with what happened on November 20, 1969. Established in San Francisco was an organization called the Indians of All Tribes. Their meeting place burned in 1969 so the group had to find a new place to meet. Before we go any further I would like to give a bit of a back story to the state of things for Native Americans at the time. It was not good, in the 1960s the Native Americans were the nation's highest poverty minority rate. On No...