John Trudell
John Trudell
John Trudellwas a Native American 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.
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When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.
One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.
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The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.
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They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.
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I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.
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In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.
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I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.
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I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.
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Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.
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I appreciate all of your expressions of concern, and I appreciate all of your expressions of love. It has been like a fire to my heart.
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I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.
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I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.
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The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.