Radio Free Alcatraz Episode, Hosted by John Trudell (1969)

All right, now on the Alcatraz, how long have you been on Alcatraz? Ever since the first land and how long do you plan on staying? Till we get it, do you perceive? Do you think that the government will give it to us? Yes, I do. With all the support and everything, we're getting right. I think that we'll get it. All right, what does this Alcatraz, the whole movement mean to you? What possible opportunities do you see for us by having Alcatraz? Well, I feel that the Indian should have it because of what the proposal stands for and the Indian need something. And I think that Alcatraz is the thing they need. It's, well, like has been said many times before that this is an opportunity for us to unite.

And so that is good. It's a matter of fact with this radio free Alcatraz thing here. We're going to be linking up with the reservations in the United States and also with the Indians in the urban areas so that we can work together. Because like right now we've got the arrow. Now we bring the people from the reservations and from the urban areas together we put a point on the arrow. And then we can start getting some work done. All right, this is what the end of a new decade and we spent 70 years now. But another five hours, four and a half hours. We spent all of this century kind of being ignored. Do you see a lot of hope for us in the 70s?

Yes, I do. Well, I think I shouldn't have even asked that question because just by what we're doing here. Now this brings the shows that we have got hope and that there are things that we can't work for in the 70s that we've got a means to do it. The Indians have always been pushed around and this is the first time that they ever tried something for themselves. And I think this is good for them. It's a very good experience. We're learning how to work together which we haven't had this experience in the past. And I know a lot of people when this first happened, a lot of people were under the impression that it had a romantic meaning to them. They looked at it very romantically. How neat the Indians are going on camping on the island of Elkhutras and taking it over and trying to take it away from the government. But what many of them fail to really realize is the fact that living on this island is just like living on the reservation as far as modern conveniences and the luxuries of life go.

How many Indians on your reservation only $30,000 homes?