Biography
Ukioma was a Hopi leader among nineteen people detained at Alcatraz in 1895. The National Park Service history names him as one of three men ordered separated from the other prisoners. Federal authorities used hard-labor confinement to force compliance with government education and assimilation policies. The group arrived at Alcatraz in January and departed for Fort Defiance, Arizona, on September 23, 1895.
Ukioma was a Hopi leader among nineteen people detained at Alcatraz in 1895. The National Park Service history names him as one of three men ordered separated from the other prisoners. Federal authorities used hard-labor confinement to force compliance with government education and assimilation policies. The group arrived at Alcatraz in January and departed for Fort Defiance, Arizona, on September 23, 1895. Indefinite hard-labor confinement conditioned on future compliance. NPS records January 1895 Alcatraz arrival after prior custody at Fort Wingate, and departure for Fort Defiance on September 23, 1895. These transfers do not establish the initial physical admission or final freedom date. No actual-service total is inferred.
Erwin N. Thompson, The Rock (NPS, 1979), printed pages 298–299 (PDF pages 311–312).