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