Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois

Black and white photograph of a group of young Native Americans gathered at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago. In the photograph, a young couple and passengers in a parked car are seen gathered next to a building at the site, with a group of musical instruments and a speaker system set up in front of the building nearby for a music performance by "Stone Savage" during the protest. In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.

1970s

1971-06-15

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

RHC-183_L107-0016a

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