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Why did American Indians occupy Alcatraz Island in 1969?

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Because according to the Treaty of fort Laramie between the the american government and the Indians all retired, abandoned or out-of-use federal land was to be returned from the native people that it was taken from (in this case the Lakota tribe)

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