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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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.
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I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
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I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.
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For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.
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Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
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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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All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
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You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.
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Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.