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Richard Oakes

Richard Oakes is known for Mohawk Native American activist. Richard Oakes was born on 22 May 1942.

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Richard Oakes is best known for Mohawk Native American activist. Richard Oakes is an American public figure. Richard Oakes was born on 22 May 1942, which places Richard Oakes among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1940s. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Richard Oakes is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

Facts

Known for: Mohawk Native American activist
Nationality: American
Born: 22 May 1942

About Richard Oakes

Oakes led a nineteen-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. Regis Mohawk Reservation, a location known in Mohawk as Akwesasne, the US portion of a reservation that spills into Canada across the St. Like many of his ancestors, Oakes spent most of his childhood fishing and planting beans. He then began working at a local dock area on the St. Lawrence Seaway, but was laid off at the age of sixteen, after which he worked as a high steelworker, a job that entailed a great deal of traveling. While working on the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, Oakes met and married an Italian/English woman from Bristol, Rhode Island...

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What is Richard Oakes known for?

Richard Oakes is known for Mohawk Native American activist.

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Richard Oakes was born on 22 May 1942.

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Richard Oakes's nationality is American.

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