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.
Randy Peone
Film 1998
Self - Santee Sioux
Film 1999
Self
Film 2007
Louie Short Hair
Film 1989
Self
Film 2010
Narrator (voice)
Film 2005
Self (archive footage)
Film 2015
Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
Film 1992
Self / Narrator (voice)
Film 2005
Johnny Redfeather
Film 1994
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Film 2009
Self
Film 2017
Indian #2
Film 2012
Self (archive footage)
Film 2022
Self
Tv 1996