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Richard Oakes (activist)

Mohawk American Indian activist (1942–1972)

For other people with the same name, see Richard Oakes (disambiguation).

Richard Oakes

Born	(1942-05-22)May 22, 1942 Akwesasne, New York, U.S.
Died	September 20, 1972(1972-09-20) (aged 30) Annapolis, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Gunshot wound
Nationality	Akwesasronon
Occupation	Activist
Known for	Occupation of Alcatraz
Spouse	Annie Marrufo (1960-1972)
Children	Richard Standing Tall Oakes JR., Yvonne Little Fawn Oakes, Joseph Oakes, Leonard Oakes, Rocky Oakes, Yvonne Oakes, Tanya Oakes

Richard Oakes (May 22, 1942 – September 20, 1972)^[1] was a Mohawk American Indian activist and academic. He spurred American Indian studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change US federal government termination policies of American Indian peoples and culture. Oakes led a nineteen-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others.^[2] The Occupa

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Richard Oakes, the famous Mohawk Native American activist, is world renown for leading the unused Alcatraz prison occupation in the San Francisco Bay at the end of the 1960s. Richard is well-credited with bringing change to the narrative around the rights of indigenous peoples. See also this 1969 video with Richard Oakes delivering his famous Alcatraz Proclamation during the occupation of Alcatraz:

Richard was born on May 22, 1942, and he died in September 1972, so he would have been 76 years old today if he hadn’t been killed and still alive. In Richard’s honor, a Google Doodle was created.
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk tribe member, a tribe that originated from the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada regions. Richard grew up in upstate New York but moved to the San Francisco area where he enrolled at San Francisco State University.

Oakes was not so pleased with the classes offered at SF State and when he got involved in the local Native American communities, he helped with founding (together with an anthropology professor) the first U.S. Native Ame

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Oakes, Richard

Born 1942
St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, New York

Died September 20, 1972
Sonoma County, California

Ironworker, political activist

Richard Oakes was one of the earliest leaders of the Native American rights movement that began to grow during the 1960s. In an era when many groups of people were fighting to end discrimination and claim their civil rights, the First People of the United States often felt like a forgotten minority. Oakes and those who worked with him did much to unite Indian people and to publicize their cause. Their work helped to restore Native American pride. Their efforts forced the U.S. government to take some responsibility for the destruction of Native American culture.

"We invite the United States to acknowledge the justice of our claim. The choice now lies with … the American government—to use violence upon us as before to remove us from our Great Spirit's land, or to institute a real change in its dealing with the American Indian."

—Richard Oakes.

Born to a proud people

Oakes was born into the Mohawk tribe of the northeaste