John Trudell
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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.
Known for
Credits
Extreme Measures (1996)
as Tony
On Deadly Ground (1994)
as Johnny Redfeather
Thunderheart (1992)
as Jimmy Looks Twice
The 11th Hour (2007)
as Self
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999)
as Self - Santee Sioux
Dreamkeeper (2003)
as Coyote
Incident at Oglala (1992)
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
Smoke Signals (1998)
as Randy Peone
Dark Blood (2012)
as Indian #2
Trudell (2005)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Reel Injun (2010)
as Self
Powwow Highway (1989)
as Louie Short Hair
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
as Self
Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
No More Smoke Signals (2009)
as self
Taking Alcatraz (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
A Thousand Roads (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie (2005)
as Black Hawk (voice)