Richard Oakes, born on this day in 1942, was a Mohawk indigenous activist and leader within the Red Power movement, playing a prominent role in the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island from 1969 - 1971.
Oakes promoted Native American studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change U.S. federal government "Termination" policies (policies regarding assimilation of indigenous people into the culture of the colonizer) of Native American peoples and culture.
In 1969, Oakes led a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. On January 5th, 1970, Oakes' 12-year-old daughter, Yvonne, fell to her death from concrete steps. After her funeral, Oakes left the island.
In 1972, Oakes was shot and killed in Sonoma, California, by Michael Morgan, a YMCA camp manager. Allegedly, Oakes violently confronted Morgan, and Morgan responded by drawing a handgun and fatally shooting Oakes.
Oakes was unarmed when he was shot. Morgan claimed he acted in self-defense, and was acquitted on charges of voluntary manslaughter.
"We do not fear your threat to charge us with crimes on our land. We and all other oppressed peoples would welcome spectacle of proof before the world of your title by genocide. Nevertheless, we seek peace."
Richard Oakes
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In Fallout 4 the reason there are super mutants in the Commonwealth is that the institute is abducting people from the surface and turning them into supermutants for...evil reasons?
I think it would be much more interesting if the super mutants of the commonwealth looked drastically different from other super mutants and were in fact failed experiments to make a Mark 4 Synth incorporating FEV (a Mark 3.5 if you will, if Nick Valentine is like a 2.5). They could have made them creepily lithe with long limbs and lean musculature or something.
One of the things i really hated about the game. There was no reason for deathclaws or super mutants of the BoS to be out east, but Beth, idk, just didn't have any new ideas? And then because it's Beth they made them mindless murder cannibals, and made the raiders mindless murder cannibals, and...
And then they made raiders that have a different name and who all wear coherent uniforms like some kind of a pseudo military force.
Those guys? Also mindless murder cannibals.