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.

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Smoke Signals

Randy Peone

Film 1998

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

Self - Santee Sioux

Film 1999

The 11th Hour

Self

Film 2007

Powwow Highway

Louie Short Hair

Film 1989

Reel Injun

Self

Film 2010

A Thousand Roads

Narrator (voice)

Film 2005

Taking Alcatraz

Self (archive footage)

Film 2015

Incident at Oglala

Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement

Film 1992

Trudell

Self / Narrator (voice)

Film 2005

On Deadly Ground

Johnny Redfeather

Film 1994

No More Smoke Signals

self

Film 2009

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Self

Film 2017

Dark Blood

Indian #2

Film 2012

Lakota Nation vs. United States

Self (archive footage)

Film 2022

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The West

Self

Tv 1996