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.
Thunderheart
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Movie pageOn Deadly Ground
as Johnny RedfeatherForrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis...
Movie pageExtreme Measures
as TonyGuy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome...
Movie pageSmoke Signals
as Randy PeoneYoung Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and...
Movie pageThe 11th Hour
as SelfA look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for...
Movie pageDreamkeeper
as CoyoteIn South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane,...
Movie pageReel Injun
as SelfThe evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent...
Movie pagePowwow Highway
as Louie Short HairTwo Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of...
Movie pageIncident at Oglala
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian MovementOn June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South...
Movie pageDark Blood
as Indian #2Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of...
Movie pageLakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage)Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills,...
Movie pageTrudell
as Self / Narrator (voice)A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word...
Movie pageRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as SelfDocumentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story...
Movie pageTaking Alcatraz
as Self (archive footage)A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the...
Movie pageA Thousand Roads
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Movie pageNo More Smoke Signals
as selfKili Radio - "Voice of the Lakota Nation" - is broadcast out of a small wooden house that sits...
Movie pageThe West
as SelfThe West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the...
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