The 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz Photos by Agnes Patak

Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony 2019
Agnes Patak

Alcatraz 2019 photo Agnes Patak

Alcatraz 2019 photo Agnes Patak

Alcatraz 2019 photo Agnes Patak

Alcatraz 2019 photo Agnes Patak

AIM West UnThansgiving Eagle and Condor Feast 2019
San Francisco. Photo Agnes Patak.

AIM West UnThanksgiving Eagle and Condor Feast, San Francisco, 2019.
Photo Agnes Patak

Ferry Alcatraz/San Francisco Bay Sunrise Ceremony, photo by Agnes Patak 2019

AIM West UnThanksgiving Eagle and Condor Feast photo by Agnes Patak 2019


Agnes Patak was born in Southern California after her parents arrived from Ecuador. She has hosted and produced “Heart of the Earth” Native radio programming on KMUD for over 30 years. Agnes is a Native photographer who loves art and documentary photos.

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Native leader says Trump's empty promises won't halt crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women

Chair Dee Dee Ybarra. Photo by Brenda Norrell.

Native leader says Trump's empty promises won't halt crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women 

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Video interview

SAN FRANCISCO -- President Trump's promise to halt the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women is no more than an empty promise aimed at getting votes, says Rumšen Am:a Tur:ataj Ohlone Tribal Chair Dee Dee Ybarra.

"President Trump is trying to entice us by signing a deal saying he is going to form a task force, which I believe is not true. He is using us to try to get our vote, to try to get our people to back him," Ybarra told Censored News during the American Indian Movement's UnThanksgiving Feast here.

Occupation of Alcatraz: LaNada War Jack 'From Self-Determination Back to Termination''

Dr. LaNada War Jack with her new book, 'Native Resistance,' at AIM West's UnThanksgiving
Feast in San Francisco on Wednesday. Photo by Brenda Norrell.

The Occupation of Alcatraz

LaNada War Jack 'From Self-Determination Back to Termination''

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Nov. 27, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO -- The victories that came with the Occupation of Alcatraz 50 years ago are now threatened by the Trump administration, said Dr. LaNada War Jack, Shoshone Bannock, at the American Indian Movement's UnThanksgiving dinner here.
"I'm really happy that we finally made it to our 50th year. There's been a lot of progress, we've gone forward, and unfortunately, we've gone many steps back as well because of the present administration. And of course after Standing Rock, he signed that executive order to allow the Dakota Access pipeline to continue, and now we have polluted waters in Montana," War Jack said in an interview with Censored News.
"We have gone forward into self-determination and now back into the termination era under the present administration."

Apache Wendsler Nosie going home to Oak Flat

Photo by Steve Pavey

Photo by Steve Pavey

Photo by Steve Pavey

By Vanessa Nosie

Censored News

Today Wendsler Nosie Sr. of the Apache Stronghold and former chair of the San Carlos Apache begins his journey home to Oak Flat.

“The history of our people, of all indigenous people, was to murder us and then place us as prisoners of war, to conquer our land for the purpose of greed. The U.S. government promises that one day we would be free and return home. Those words were lies and betrayal. Today my father, Wendsler Nosie Sr. started on his spiritual journey to return home to take his permanent residency at Oak Flat. He started this morning where they first imprisoned us at Old San Carlos.

"He is no longer allowing the U.S. government to continue to lie to him and his people. In his return home he is going to continue to fight this evil that has shown to us throughout this country and protect our holy sites, and our future generations to come. Please continue to pray for him and the journey he is on for his life will forever be changed.”

Read more: Religious leaders join Wendsler Nosie to guard Oak Flat