Adam Fortunate Eagle (born Adam Nordwall) is a hereditary member of the Ojibway Nation, and was the principal organizer of the 1969 to 1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island by "Indians of All Tribes". He was the author of the "THE ALCATRAZ PROCLAMATION to the Great White Father and his People" which stated the goal of the occupiers to create a Center for Native American Studies, an American Indian Spiritual Center, an Indian Center of Ecology, and a Great Indian Training School, none of which came to be on the island. While the occupation of Alcatraz seemed a failure on the surface, the federal policy of termination of all tribes ended in 1971, and self determination became the policy. Many consider the Alcatraz occupation to be the beginning of the "Red Power" movement. Alcatraz Island (sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or by its pop-culture name, The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. ...