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Their crimes,
they opposed forced education of their children in government boarding schools. Including efforts to force them to farm. Both "offenses" were resistance to genocidal U.S. policies designed to erase Hopi language and religion.
They would be held at Alcatraz Island Penitentiary in January 1895.
Traveling by foot, horse, train and boat, Heevi'ima, Polingyawma, Masatiwa, Q'tsventiwa, Piphongva, Lomahongewma, Lomayestiwa, Yukiwma, Tuvehoyiwma, Patupha, Q'tsyawma, Sikyakeptiwa, Talagayniwa, Talasyawma, Nasingayniwa, Lomayawma, Tawalestiwa, Aqawsi, and Q'iwiso would arrive in San Francisco over a month later.
On Alcatraz they were to be, "...held in confinement, at hard labor, until . . . they shall show . . . they fully realize the error of their evil ways . . . until they shall evince, in an unmistakable manner, a desire to cease interference with the plans of the government for the civilization and education of its indian wards." - Indian Agent 1st Lieutenant S.H. Plummer.
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