AP Was There: Native Americans take over Alcatraz Island

On Nov. 20, 1969, dozens of Native Americans took over Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay to demand that the U.S. government recognize longstanding agreements with tribes and turn over the deed to the island.The U.S. government years earlier declared Alcatraz, the site of a former maximum-security prison, surplus property several.Native Americans used an 1868 treaty between the U.S. and the Sioux to stake a claim to the land.