Pit River & Alcatraz American Indian meetings in San Francisco
About This Item
KPIX's Evan White reports from downtown San Francisco on March 25th 1971, where representatives of the Pit River Indians and American Indians occupying Alcatraz are shown publicizing their land claims at PG&E and the Southern Pacific Railroad Building. White interviews several activists including Ross Montgomery Sr. and John Trudell, who states: "We're serving notice on the tour boats. We don't want ... them ... bringing tourists close to the island, so that they can look at us ... It's not a zoo out there." Montgomery Sr. comments on their reception at PG&E: "When I went to school, how did it go? We the people of the United States of America, so forth and so forth. Now it's we the big corporations of America. These are the people that control America. It's not we the people. This is why I think that we were met here today as we were with armed guards." Also features interviews with spokesmen for PG&E, the Southern Pacific Railroad and tour boat operators.
- Originally aired on
- KPIX Eye on the Bay News
- Date aired
- 3/25/1971
- Recording medium
- 16mm color magnetic sound film
- 5:46
- Rights for this video belong to
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Type of material
- archival news film
- Event
- Occupation of Alcatraz
- Identifier
- KPIX 104736
- Views
- 7739