Colin Kaepernick joins Native Americans for UnThanksgiving Day protest on Alcatraz
sparked a national debate, has travelled to Alcatraz Island to join Native Americans protesting the “genocide” they say is represented by Thanksgiving Day. The 30-year-old made a surprise visit to the site of the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary who occupied the island off the coast of San Francisco between 1969 and 1971. Since then, there has been an annual sunrise gathering to highlight the deadly, destructive impact on indigenous people of the arrival in America of European colonisers more than 400 years ago. The former San Francisco ...
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