John Trudell, a Native American activist who became a spokesman for American Indian protesters during their 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island — and whose personal grief-inspired poetry was celebrated ...

John Trudell may not be a household name, but the American Indian poet and musician has friends in high places. Jackson Browne, Kris Kristofferson and Bonnie Raitt have praised Trudell's unique blend ...

Born in Omaha, Neb., and raised on and off the Santee Sioux reservation 50 miles away, John Trudell’s advocacy on behalf of native Americans had been done in relative obscurity. Except, that is, to ...

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John Trudell, whose outspokenness and charisma made him a leading advocate of Native American rights, and who channeled his message of righteous defiance into poetry and songwriting, died Tuesday at ...

My one meeting with John Trudell occurred backstage at the Rushmore Plaza Convention Center in Rapid City, S.D., on July 2, 1989. Trudell died Tuesday. He was 69. I will always remember Trudell for ...

John Trudell, who was a spokesman for American Indian protesters during their 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island in California and later headed the American Indian Movement, died Dec. 8 at his home in ...

ALBUQUERQUE A New Mexico tribal drum circle concludes an honour song and John Trudell steps onto the stage, all in black, even his eyes shielded by opaque lenses, his dark hair streaming past his ...

It has not been a happy month for Native American activists. Recently we said goodbye to Robin Poor Bear, and this week, activist/author/musician/poet John Trudell ...

“Trudell” makes you sad two times over. First because of the tragic things that have happened to the documentary’s subject, Native American poet and activist John Trudell. Second because there is a ...

“I don’t want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.” —John Trudell “He got a fast horse. Comanche warriors made sure he got their best. Hoofbeats thunder ...

Some singers think of their work as protest music, but poet-activist John Trudell has walked the walk. A former national chairman of the American Indian Movement and part of the occupying force at ...