Your history class probably taught you about Alcatraz the prison. It almost definitely left out the story of Richard Oakes, the visionary who took it back. For Native American Heritage Month, you need to know his name. Richard Oakes was a Mohawk intellectual, a high steelworker, and one of the primary founders of the first American Indian Studies department in the nation at SF State. He was a visionary. And in 1969, he led the “Indians of All Tribes” in the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island