Alcatraz in San Francisco: The Alcatraz Receiving Depot and the End of the Occupation

The Alcatraz recieving depot was one of the most important locations in the Alcatraz movement. Responsible for both the length and logistical support of the occupiers and conversely, the location where resuppliers would ultimately be aprehended, bringing an end to the Alcatraz Occupation.

The Alcatraz Occupation was not isolated to the island of Alcatraz. The efforts to keepup the occupation were multifarious a widespread throughout the Indians of All Tribes (IAT) organization and their affiliates. The Native occupiers set up a permanent supply outpost and resupply center at Pier 40, the former supply pier for Alcatraz before it was decomissioned as a prison. The supply post served the Alcatraz occupant well until the fatefull supply run on June 11th, 1971 whn suppliers would be ambushed at Pier 40 by federal agents and ultimately held in the Senator Hotel for questioning and a press conference debriefing the events of the past two years of occupation on Alcatraz.

The Sentor Hotel was the secondary location the the captured IAT protestors were taken in 1971 after they were held for a period on the military instalation on Treasure Island. There the press was able to conduct some of the first interviews with the Alcatraz movement's coordinators since the occupation began nearly two years prior.

This photo depicts a group of IAT leaders just after their aprehension at Pier 40 showing solidarity with the greater Red Power movement despite the logistical failure of their own.