Michael Sturdevant, 60; Led Tribe’s Takeover of Wisconsin Monastery
LA Times
Michael Sturdevant, 60, the leader of a 1975 Menominee Indian takeover of a monastery near Gresham, Wis., died of cancer Jan. 10 in Madison, Wis.
Sturdevant drew national attention when he and about 45 members of the tribe took over the abandoned 84-room Alexian Brothers Novitiate on New Year’s Day 1975.
Their goal was to turn the former mansion into an American Indian hospital.
