In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.

In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.

The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn, organized against the NYC's planned shrinkage tactics to close schools, hospitals, and firehouses.

In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle, but its supporters fight to hold on to a dream that was never fully realized.