John Trudell
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Music
- Subcategories: Poetry, Poets, Native Americans, American Indians, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Musicians, Music
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: John Trudell has been one of the central, and most controversial, figures of the American Indian Movement (AIM); he is also a poet and musician.
John Trudell, who spent his early years on the Santee Sioux reservation and in Omaha, Nebraska, was one of a core of American Indian activists who were identified with the founding of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 and its turbulent years in the early 1970's. Trudell came to national prominence in 1969 as a spokesman for Native Americans who were occupying Alcatraz Island. Trudell; his...
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