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.
Filmography (21 titles)
8.7ShowVow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage) · 2024
6.2MovieLakota Nation vs. United States
Self (archive footage) · 2022
7.6MovieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self · 2017
MovieTaking Alcatraz
Self (archive footage) · 2015
6.0MovieDark Blood
Indian #2 · 2012
7.0MovieReel Injun
Self · 2010
4.0MovieNo More Smoke Signals
self · 2009
6.7MovieThe 11th Hour
Self · 2007
MovieAmerica's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
Black Hawk (voice) · 2005
9.0MovieA Thousand Roads
Narrator (voice) · 2005
5.7MovieTrudell
Self / Narrator (voice) · 2005
6.7MovieDreamkeeper
Coyote · 2003
5.0ShowDreamkeeper
Coyote · 2003
7.0MovieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Self - Santee Sioux · 1999
6.8MovieSmoke Signals
Randy Peone · 1998
6.0MovieExtreme Measures
Tony · 1996
8.4ShowThe West
Self · 1996
5.2MovieOn Deadly Ground
Johnny Redfeather · 1994
7.2MovieIncident at Oglala
Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement · 1992
6.3MovieThunderheart
Jimmy Looks Twice · 1992
6.8MoviePowwow Highway
Louie Short Hair · 1989