Ilka Hartmann

This poster, created overnight, appeared in Berkeley on June 12, 1971, the day after the removal of the Indians from Alcatraz. “Hoka Hay” is a battle cry used by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. It means: “To live life in such a way that one has done all that one should upon oneʼs last day, so it is indeed a good day to die.”