organizing officers included Dorothy Lonewolf Miller, president; Grace Thorpe (Sac & Fox), vice president; Leach, 2nd vice president; Woesha Cloud North (Ho-Chunk), secretary; Henrietta Whiteman (Cheyenne), treasurer; and Jennie Joe, sergeant-at-arms. When the occupation ended, Leach and other activists from Alcatraz, like John Trudell (Santee Dakota) moved on to occupy the abandoned Nike Missile site at Richmond, California, but were removed in June 1971. In the 1980s, Leach returned to using her maiden name of Runnels. She worked to help her son Harry Leach, Jr., a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, "triggered by his military service". Harry was accused of threatening to poison water supplies in San Jose, as well as Caesars Tahoe and Sahara Tahoe, both in Stateline, Nevada. His case brought the mental health of Vietnam veterans and the inadequate care they were receiving into the spotlight of the national media. After his acquittal, Runnels remarried and moved to Sonoma, California where the couple operated a chicken ranch. She returned to Washington, locating in Nespelem around 2000 and remained active in issues effecting the Colville Indian Reservation. Death and legacy Runnels died on January 29, 2010, in Grant, Mason County, Washington. She was buried near her family members in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Nespelem. She was interviewed as part of the American Indian Historical Research Project in 1970 by Anna Boyd. Her interview is in the holdings of the Doris Duke Oral History Collection at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. References Citations Bibliography and and and 1918 births 2010 deaths People from Ferry County, Washington Native American activists American nurses American women nurses Oglala people Laney College Activists from Washington (state) 21st-century American women 20th-century Native American women 20th-century Native Americans