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John Trudell

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Birthday

Feb 15, 1946 (79 years old)

Death date

Dec 08, 2015

John Trudell

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Movie 2022

Lakota Nation vs. United States

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her...

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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

1h 43m

Movie 2017

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music...

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0h 40m

Movie 2015

Taking Alcatraz

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the...

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1h 26m

Movie 2012

Dark Blood

Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's...

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1h 26m

Movie 2010

Reel Injun

The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American...

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Movie 2009

No More Smoke Signals

Kili Radio - "Voice of the Lakota Nation" - is...

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Movie 2005

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and...

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1h 20m

Movie 2005

Trudell

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels,...

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2h 54m

Movie 2003

Dreamkeeper

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller...

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Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

1h 5m

Movie 1999

Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's...

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Biography

John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in three films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.