#john trudell

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Thunderheart Cast

May their Memories be a Blessing, & may they be reunited with each other and the ancestors.

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John Trudell in 1971

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Photos taken at the Palomino Club on February 19, 1987. Pictured in photo 2 are Jesse Ed Davis, Gary Ray, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Bobby Tsukamoto, John Trudell, George Harrison, (front) Jim Ehinger, Mark Shark. Photos courtesy of Tao of Tunings.

“I’ll tell you what happened there [at the Palomino Club]. I’d gone to America and Bob [Dylan] rang me and said, you know, did I want to come out for an evening and see Taj Mahal who was playing at The Palomino? So we went there and had a few of these Mexican beers, and had a few more. And Jesse Ed Davis, who played guitar on Watching The River Flow, is in the audience, and Bob says, Hey, why don’t we all get up and play — we’ve had a few beers, right — and you can sing! So we get up there and I’m in the spotlight and Bob’s hanging back in the shadows and I start singing: What’s the matter with me? I don’t have much to say… and every time I get near the microphone, Dylan comes running up and just starts singing this rubbish in my ear, trying to throw me off.” - George Harrison, Q, 1988 “Heavyweights like George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne have long lent their support to the causes and chords of unsung Native American activist John Trudell.” - Texas Monthly, January 1992 “Dylan introduced Trudell to ‪George Harrison‬ in the late 1980s, an association that led to Trudell’s first movie role in the film, ‘Pow-Wow Highway,’ which Harrison produced [with HandMade Films].” - alternet.org, June 15, 2002 “[The script of Powwow Highway] had a lot of heart.” - George Harrison, Los Angeles Daily News, March 1989 “Bob Dylan and George Harrison consider Trudell a dynamic poetic force representing Native American people.” - Ventura County Star, December 8, 1989 “[Dylan] even brought George Harrison to come see me perform one night. Bob was just really cool to us and gave us credibility amongst other artists, when we really didn’t fit in anywhere.” - John Trudell, Star Tribune, November 26, 2014

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"We have to think our way out of what we have believed ourselves into."

~ John Trudell

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graham greene is gone...

I got back into tumblr earlier this year, searching for some kind of community after val kilmer's death. these two were always associated in my mind because they were two of my first crushes as a little kid, and because they were in 'thunderheart' together (which, fan or not, you NEED to go watch this movie. seriously. you will thank me).

these guys were fixtures of my childhood, as an autistic kid with a movie obsession (and a permissive mother😅). two of my first favorites were 'willow' and 'dances with wolves' (the latter of which I only liked because of kicking bird). it sucks to watch your childhood icons go!