Personal Info
John Trudell
Acting
Biography
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 car…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Lakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as Self
Taking Alcatraz
as Self (archive footage)
Dark Blood
as Indian #2
Reel Injun
as Self
No More Smoke Signals
as self
The 11th Hour
as Self
Trudell
as Self / Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Roads
as Narrator (voice)
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
as Black Hawk (voice)
