-As depicted in this photograph, why did the group "Indians of All Tribes" decide to occupy the site of an abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay between 1969 and 1971?
A) Alcatraz prison had been the site where many Native Americans had been imprisoned during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
B) They felt the prison was the perfect site because, like an Indian reservation, it also lacked many basic facilities.
C) The island had been part of an earlier reservation set aside for California Indians before it was taken away from them.
D) The island was the site of an ancestral burial ground before it became the site of a federal prison.

Question

-As depicted in this photograph, why did the group "Indians of All Tribes" decide to occupy the site of an abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay between 1969 and 1971?
A) Alcatraz prison had been the site where many Native Americans had been imprisoned during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 
B) They felt the prison was the perfect site because, like an Indian reservation, it also lacked many basic facilities. 
C) The island had been part of an earlier reservation set aside for California Indians before it was taken away from them. 
D) The island was the site of an ancestral burial ground before it became the site of a federal prison.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The group "Indians of All Tribes" chose to occupy Alcatraz because they felt it symbolically represented the conditions of Indian reservations, highlighting the lack of basic facilities and the isolation experienced on reservations.

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