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John Trudell was a Native American 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 suspicious 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 films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.



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✵ 15. February 1946 – 8. December 2015
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“Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.”

"What it Means to be a Human Being" Speech (2001)

“The past is more than a memory.”

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