A black-and-white photo from Alcatraz Island when it was occupied by Indigenous youth in 1969. The photo looks up a ramp onto a courtyard outside the prison itself. A group of young men are standing at the end of the ramp looking down towards the photographer. Painted writing on the prison walls reads: Indians Wlecome ... Indian Land. A TNI-inserted caption reads "San Francisco has been, and continues to be, a hot spot for Indigenous activism".

1975 - USA: Sister Native Study Group (NSG) formed

In the San Fransisco area, Indigenous youth form a United States-based chapter of the Native Study Group. This chapter is inspired by Marxist teachings and by the work of the Native Study Group in Vancouver.

[Helping the chapters actualize their shared mandate is] the establishment of material relations of support and solidarity within and between the ‘internal colonies’ of the US and Canadian settler-states…

– from Glen Sean Coulthard’s ‘Once were Maoists: Third World currents in Fourth World anti-colonialism, Vancouver, 1967-1975’

Image source: The Nation