[Indigsol] John Trudell: What it Means to be a Human Being

[Pei-Ju Wang]

Summary:    

 

Reading poems, interspersed with talk, Trudell comments on intelligence,
responsibility and what it means to be a human being. Trudell grew up on the
Santee Sioux reservation near Omaha, Nebraska. From 1973-79 he served as
National Chairman of AIM.

 

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Notes:   John Trudell is a poet, musician, and an advocate for Native
American rights. He did not set out to be a writer. His poetic gift
developed out of the remarkable, sometimes horrifying circumstances of his
life.

Trudell grew up on and around the Santee Sioux reservation near Omaha,
Nebraska. In 1969 he participated in the Indians of All Tribes Occupation of
Alcatraz. >From 1973-1979 he served as National Chairman of AIM, the
American Indian Movement. The government response to A.I.M. was swift:
Trudell said, "They waged a war against us. They hunted us down. They
killed, jailed, destroyed us by any means necessary."

In 1979 that war took a terrible personal toll on John Trudell. On February
11 he led a march to the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. Approximately
12 hours later in the early morning hours, a fire "of suspicious origin"
burned down Trudell's home on the Shoshone Paiute reservation in Nevada,
killing his wife Tina, their three children, and Tina's mother.

Devastated by this loss of his family, Trudell withdrew from the world;
"writing words" became his way "to keep some sanity" and continue to
survive.

Now Trudell has returned as musician, poet and highly sought after public
speaker. You are about to hear the talk he gave in March 2001 in San
Francisco. The hall was filled to capacity. Trudell took the stage with a
thin folder of his poems under his arm. He began with a disclaimer of sorts,
leading into a free association of thoughts about earth and sun, ancient
wisdom and modern intelligence and what it means to be a human being.

 

Downloads: 

 

1 TRUDELL ONE/TWO
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2 TRUDELL TWO/TWO
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Web site: 

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/13563

 





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