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The occupation of Alcatraz Island led to many important changes to Indian Country. Chief among them were —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.41.100.197 ( talk) 22:24, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like to offer evidence to change the section on the death of Oakes to say that the charges against Morgan were dismissed, rather than that he was cleared by a jury. This is not true. Here is my evidence:
"The camp employee was charged with involuntary manslaughter, but charges were later dropped on the grounds that Oakes had come "menacingly toward" him." REFERENCE: Troy R. Johnson, The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism, 1996; New York Times, September 22, 1972.
Here is a link: http://books.google.com/books? id=X7KG3GgZUHoC&pg=PA348&lpg=PA348&dq=mike+morgan+YMCA+involuntary+manslaughter&source=bl&ots=7OZPC6NroX&sig=yDhR2rdmv4ud8j4RGHna99a948E&hl=en&ei=xAE8S-vLBYOyNtL89fQI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Thanks Bigdatut ( talk) 01:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I got tired of waiting, so I changed it myself. Bigdatut ( talk) 16:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Reads like a hagiography with many gaps; lacks explanations (e.g. around the Alcatraz boat story, or stepdaughter/stairs?) or logical sequencing (travel west after 1963, or after his son was born 1968?). One source gives security warning. Better source might be like this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.228.72.136 ( talk) 05:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi - The section on the Occupation appear to be copy and pasted directly from this source http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/eng/Richard_Oakes_(activist) include formating issues. I have made this 'accusation" on another page in the past, only to find that there is was some sort of publishing arrangement Librarianhelen ( talk) 13:34, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Today's Richard Oakes's birthday, and (surprise) Google has a Doodle about him.
The infobox on the Google search page you get when you click the Google Doodle offers this information:
"Richard Oakes
Activist Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist who promoted the idea that Native peoples have a right to sovereignty, justice, respect, and control over their own destinies. Wikipedia Born: May 22, 1942, New York
Assassinated: September 20, 1972, Sonoma, CA"
(boldfacing mine for emphasis).
Which implies in OUR voice that Mr. Oakes was assassinated when our article shows it was a deadly quarrel, arguably manslaughter, but not an assassination. Nothing in our article says Oakes was assassinated.
Is there any way we can stop Google from putting words like "assassination" in summaries of our articles when they're not in our articles? loupgarous ( talk) 21:04, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
And then a miracle occurred!
The following statement is unsupported:
Note that the reference is to the article from which the statement (and this article) was copied, and that there the statement was unsupported. This is simply hagiography.
If there is any direct link between his actions and ending the termination era, it would be very appropriate to document that. Otherwise, the hagiographic "he did this" dishonors him, the author, and especially all those others who worked hard towards reversing the injustice. See Ada Deer for an individual example, and Indian termination policy for more background. Shenme ( talk) 00:32, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
§ Alcatraz occupation includes the paragraph
There's no explanation of "IDC" and nothing that looks relevant on the DAB page IDC. The closest thing I've found in a web search is "NCIDC", the Northern California Indian Development Council. That could very well be what was meant. But since there's no explanation in the article of what it stands for or why it's there, I'm taking it out.
I'm also providing a WP:RS for the text of that proclamation, which is currently unref'ed.
-- Thnidu ( talk) 03:45, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Possibly Luis Kemnitzer (ref. 5, original article here). — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulSutherland ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR's "Latino USA" broadcast an hour-long program on Richard Oakes in November 2018 and re-broadcast on 25 November 2023. Kdammers ( talk) 01:59, 26 November 2023 (UTC)