Richard Oakes: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Native American activist Richard Oakes is the subject of today’s Google Doodle. May 22, 2017, would be his 75th birthday. Oakes is best known for creating one of the first Native American studies departments in the nation, and leading an occupation of Alcatraz Island in the late 1960s. Oakes, affectionally dubbed “Chief” by his fellow Natives, was born in New York on May 22, 1942, and died on September 20, 1972 at 30. ======================== Learn more about news on Youtube: Do you have any questions? Please comment below, thanks.