John Trudell

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Musical career

Trudell met musical performer and activist Jackson Browne in 1979 and became more involved in the musical world (and recording albums and performing his own compositions in live venues).

Trudell's album A.K.A Graffitti Man ("graffiti" was misspelled in the title) with Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, which was originally only available on cassette tape format. This fits in with the selling of music mixtapes by indigenous people and other so-called minorities. These tapes were shot live at group events and ripped and posted on non-commercial media, such as those of the San Francisco-based rock band Grateful Dead, Native American powwow music performances in general, and African American gatherings. Whence came the phrase Each One Teach One. These tactics were also typical of a burgeoning grassroots movement that was arguably a reaction to the reactionary madness of slavery and/or imperialist hegemony that flourished in the 1980s.

He was involved in Tony Hymas' Oyaté project in 1990.

Trudell remade and re-released AKA Grafitti Man as an audio CD in 1992, achieving high critical and popular acclaim.

Johnny Damas & Me, 1994, "a culmination of years of poetic work and an example of a process of fusing traditional sounds, values, and sensibilities with thought-provoking lyrics, this time with a lot of commotion."

A.K.A Grafitti Man (1986), Heart Jump Bouquet (1999), The Moremes (2004), Crazier Than Hell (2010), Wazi's Dream (2015).

"This isn't just pop rock with Indian drums and chanting added," Trudell's live performances. An American Indian with a multicultural band is directing anyone who will pay attention" to anyone who will listen.

The closing scene of Alanis Obomsawin's 2014 documentary film Trick or Treaty includes a sequence. Trudell's song "Crazy Horse" is set to play.

Writing career

Trudell began writing poetry about six months after his family's death. "They're called poems," he said, but in reality, they're lines given to me to hold." Hundreds of others have written "Baby Boom Che" and "Rant and Roll."

He often posted recent poetic musings and published works-in-progress on social media, including his Facebook page in the 2010s.

Trudell's many impromptu videos of him in live concert appearances or supporting political, socioeconomic, indigenous rights, and educational organizations have been posted on Youtube, and although he was pressed for "soundbyte commentary," Trudell preferred to address specific causes that he advocated, such as sustainable paper pulp).

Trudell often wrote lyrics for albums and started in 1982 to set them to traditional Indian Indian music, which culminated in the death of so many loved ones.

Trudell (as Graffiti Man) was invited to tour with them in late 1988, during their From Diesel and Dust to the Big Mountain world tour. Trudell's appearance on the show was described as "Native American activist performance" by the narrator. Midnight Oil players, performed in native American languages, and performed in heavy psychedelic Hendrix-style guitars, accompanying Trudell. Trudell's new and huge audiences were attracted by this performance.

Trudell appeared in 1993 with Peter Gabriel's international WOMAD (World Music and Dance) tour. He was billed as John Trudell, who performed his old songs and reading his poetry.

Trudell's Lines From a Mined Mind: A Book About John Trudell, a collection of 25 years of poetry, lyrics, and essays, was released in 2008.

Film career

Trudell spent his career as an actor, appearing in Pow Wow Highway (1989), Thunderheart (1992), and Smoke Signals (1998) (as the Radio presenter Randy Peone on K-REZ radio). He served as an advisor to the production of Incident at Oglala, directed by Michael Apted and filmed by Robert Redford. The 1992 documentary, which was a companion piece to the fictional Thunderheart, examines the truth surrounding the 1976 shooting of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, for which Leonard Peltier was found in 1977. Trudell played a character that mimics Peltier in Thunderheart.

Dreamkeeper (2003) "The Legends of American Nations Come To Life" includes many traditional native tales. In a tale about A Spider and Coyote, Trudell played a woman named Coyote.

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