Live from Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, KPFA broadcasts the sending of prayers and saying of words to all those who have passed on, their families in mourning and those who are still struggling to survive the pandemic in all the Indigenous Nations and communities around the world. They offer collective thanks for 528 years of survival and resistance including other pandemics they have survived.
The Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremonies are annual events held on Alcatraz Island to honor the Indigenous Peoples of America and to promote their rights. This year because of the pandemic the ceremony will not be public. Held annually since 1975, the Alcatraz ceremonies commemorate the protest event of 1969 where the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement.