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John Trudell
Known for: ActingJohn 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 14
Thunderheart
as Jimmy Looks Twice 
On Deadly Ground
as Johnny Redfeather 
The West
as Self 
Powwow Highway
as Louie Short Hair 
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage) 
The 11th Hour
as Self 
Trudell
as Self / Narrator (voice) 
Smoke Signals
as Randy Peone 
Dreamkeeper
as Coyote 
Incident at Oglala
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement 
Lakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage) 
Reel Injun
as Self 
Dark Blood
as Indian #2