The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-71

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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How a group of American Indian activists occupied the former prison island in San Francisco Bay, and then sarcastically offered to buy it from the American government for a handful of beads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History.
0:10.8	I'm Angela Barnes.
0:11.6	I'm John O'Farrell.
0:13.2	And John is still over there in the good old US of A.
0:17.3	I am.
0:17.7	It's nine in the morning here, Angela.
0:19.6	It's like doing the BBC radio van in your pyjamas,
0:23.0	which I did do a few times. I wonder if this episode would be less sort of sweary and fewer
0:30.0	knob gags because it's so early in the morning you'll feel a bit weird. Maybe that's it. I'm just
0:33.1	drinking tea. So yes, I'm just just, um... Because usually we're on the gin, aren't we?
0:37.5	That's right, normally in the afternoons, yeah.
0:39.9	So you've picked quite a relevant topic then for this week.
0:43.0	Yes.
0:43.5	Considering where you are.
0:45.2	Because I'm not in USFA, I should say.
0:47.5	I'm in a very cold and rainy brighton.
0:50.1	Even though I'm 3,000 miles away, Angela, I've been bought a VPN for my computer so I can watch British TV.
0:56.8	And I've watched you.
0:58.3	I've watched you on University Challenge.
1:00.2	Smash it out of the park barns.
1:02.2	It was amazing.
1:04.2	You did so well.
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