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He wrote "The Alcatraz Proclamation to the Great White Father and his People," which states that the goal of the occupiers was 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 new policy. Many consider the Alcatraz occupation the beginning of the "Red Power" movement. Most recently, Fortunate Eagle performed the voice of Sitting Bull in the feature-length documentary, "Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart" (http://www.lillimar.com). He is also the subject of a new feature-length documentary called "Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle" (http://www.Lillimar.com), and has recently completed a book on his experiences as an Indian boarding school titled "Pipestone: "My Life in An Indian Boarding School".
He is the father of poet nila northSun.
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