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John Trudell

American Author

Born: Feb 15, 1946

Died: Dec 8, 2015

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity. John Trudell

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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. John Trudell

Music Crazy World Country Horse Country Music Overall Singers Rock Always Rock-N-Roll Malcolm Malcolm X Been Roll Blues Influenced Influences

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. John Trudell

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters. John Trudell

People White Seem Lot Elders Many

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. John Trudell

You Property Constitution People Will Independence Rest White Back See Only Could Excluded Freedoms Read Go Were Males Owned Decide Declaration Us Your Who

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive. John Trudell

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I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in. John Trudell

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky. John Trudell

Sky Before Soldiers Dream Had Bull Falling Sitting Little

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights. John Trudell

Positive Rights Fight Resources Positive Things Tribes Constant Some About Terms Protecting Been Happened Land Vigilant Things

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. John Trudell

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do. John Trudell

Me Poet Writer Am Really Activist Actor Things

I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors. John Trudell

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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. John Trudell

Good Guess Pretty Pretty Good Institution Context Doing Personal Ground

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. John Trudell

Saying Entertainment Rest Whatever Doors Down Entertainment Industry Indians See About Something Knocking Industry Any Hollywood Reasons Media

I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments. John Trudell

Heart Word Thought Power Out See Could Take Wire Along Instruments Coming Wanted Us Electric Speaking Humans

I'm basically a starving artist. John Trudell

Starving Artist Basically

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