Thousands of years ago, somewhere on the warm seacoasts of the North American continent, an Indian picked up a sea snail’s shell, blew a tentative toot. He had a horn. Perhaps he did not catch on at ...

Alvaro Tellez, with the Teokalli Aztec Dancers, above, is among the tribes gathered on Alcatraz around a bonfire, right, at dawn Thanksgiving Day to commemorate the 1969-71 occupation of the island ...