John Trudell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 15, 1946
- Died
- December 8, 2015
- Birthplace
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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.
Filmography
Lakota Nation vs. United States 2022
as Self (archive footage)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World 2017
as Self
Taking Alcatraz 2015
as Self (archive footage)
Dark Blood 2012
as Indian #2
Reel Injun 2010
as Self
No More Smoke Signals 2009
as Self
The 11th Hour 2007
as Self
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie 2005
as Black Hawk (voice)
A Thousand Roads 2005
as Narrator (voice)
Trudell 2005
as Self / Narrator (voice), Music
Dreamkeeper 2003
as Coyote
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson 1999
as Self - Santee Sioux
Smoke Signals 1998
as Randy Peone
Extreme Measures 1996
as Tony
On Deadly Ground 1994
as Johnny Redfeather
Incident at Oglala 1992
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement, Music Consultant
Thunderheart 1992
as Jimmy Looks Twice
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier 1991
Thanks
Powwow Highway 1989
as Louie Short Hair
Credits from TMDB.