Forty years ago, Indian militants, as they were then named, occupied the island of Alcatraz. In their memory, our writer reflects on both the bloody history of the first Thanksgiving, and the remarkable, enduring power of tribal tradition to create spiritual sustenance in the modern world.
Johnny P. Flynn
Johnny P. Flynn is a Potawatomi Indian who happens to be a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Indiana means “place of the Indians.”
