Richard Oakes  1942-1972
 

An Akwesasne Mohawk national and Native American activist, Richard Oakes developed the nation’s first Native American Studies program at San Francisco State University.  He was instrumental to the Occupation of Alcatraz as well as the Red Power Movement.  Videos can be found of Oakes’ address to the media in which he proclaims the then abandoned Alcatraz island as Indian property by right of discovery, citing the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie which states abandoned federal land would be returned to Native Americans.

Tricolored Blackbird populations have declined by more than 50% since 1970.