John Trudell
John Trudell (born February 15, 1946 in Omaha , Nebraska , † December 8, 2015 in Santa Clara County , California ) was a political activist of the North American Indian movement , musician and actor. He is the son of a Santee - Indian and a Mexican woman near the Santee- Reserve grew up in Omaha.
Life
John Trudell's father was Santee Sioux and his mother was of Mexican-Indian ancestry. He served in the US Navy from 1963 to 1969 and took part in the Vietnam War .
In the United States he was involved in the occupation of the former prison island Alcatraz in the Bay of San Francisco by the Indians of All Tribes (English for: Indians of all tribes) in 1969/70 and joined the American Indian Movement , of which he was chairman from 1973 until 1979/80.
Hours after he gave a speech about the FBI's war against the Indians and burned an American flag outside FBI headquarters in Washington, DC on February 11, 1979, his father-in-law Arthur Manning's house in the Shoshone - Paiute Reservation was on fire from Duck Valley on the Idaho / Nevada border . Trudell's wife Tina, his three children and his mother-in-law were killed. John Trudell suspects arson by the FBI.
After this decisive experience, Trudell began to compose and later to set his poems to music. First with Jackson Browne , then with the Kiowa Jesse Ed Davis . After Davis's death, he added the music of Mark Shark to his poetry .
Trudell was also active as an actor. He was seen, for example, in the Hollywood film Half Blood .
John Trudell died on December 8, 2015 at the age of 69 years at a cancer in Santa Clara County in California.
Awards
John Trudell received three Native American Music Awards , 1998 for Living Legend , 2000 for Artist of the Year and for Song of the Year for Blue Indians with Jackson Browne .
Discography
- Tribal Voice (1983)
- Original AKA Graffiti Man (1986)
- But This Isn't El Salvador (1987)
- Heart Jump Bouquet (1987)
- Fables and Other Realities (1991)
- Child's Voice: Children of the Earth (1992)
- AKA Grafitti Man (1992)
- Johnny Damas and Me (1994)
- Blue Indians (1999)
- Descendant Now Ancestor (2001)
- Bone Days (2002)
- Live at Fip (2005)
- DNA: Descendant Now Ancestor (2008)
- Children of Earth - Childs Voice (2008)
- Through the Dust (feat. Kwest) (2014)
Filmography (selection)
- 1989: Powwow Highway ; also two Cheyennes on the highway
- 1992: Half-Blood (Thunderheart)
- 1994: On Deadly Ground (On Deadly Ground)
- 1996: Extreme ... by all means (Extreme Measures)
- 1998: Smoke Signals
- 2003: Dreamkeeper
- 2005: Trudell
- 2012: Dark Blood
Web links
- Homepage of John Trudell (English)
- John Trudell on MySpace
- Biography and discography on Billboard Online ( Memento from January 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- John Trudell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Jablon: John Trudell, American Indian Movement activist, poet and actor, dies in California at 69. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: startribune.com. December 9, 2015, accessed December 9, 2015.
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SURNAME | Trudell, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian freedom fighter, musician and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Omaha , Nebraska , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 2015 |
Place of death | Santa Clara County , California , United States |