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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155447145/sunshine_karma-trudell: accessed ), memorial page for Sunshine Karma Trudell (16 Dec 1975–12 Feb 1979), Find a Grave Memorial ID 155447145, citing Owyhee East Side Cemetery, Owyhee, Elko County, Nevada, USA; Maintained by Cindy K. Coffin (contributor 47084179).
Dec 15, 2015 · In honor of the late John Trudell, and Tina Manning Trudell, her mother Leah Hicks Manning, and precious children, Ricarda Star, Sunshine Karma, Eli Changing Sun, and Josiah Hawk, who are smiling in the spirit world, reunited with their daddy.
- Sarah Sunshine Manning
- Early Life and Education
- Military Service
- Activism
- Personal Life
- Musical Career
- Writing Career
- Film Career
- Documentary About Trudell
- Discography
- Bibliography
Trudell was born in Omaha, Nebraska on February 15, 1946, the son of a Santee Dakota father and a Mexican mother. He grew up in small towns near the Santee Sioux Reservation in northern Nebraska near the southeast corner of South Dakota. He was educated in local schools and also in Santee Dakota culture.
At the age of 17 in 1963, Trudell dropped out of high school and left the Midwest to join the US Navy. He served during the early years of the Vietnam Warand stayed in the Navy until 1967. Afterwards, he attended San Bernardino Valley College, a two-year community college in San Bernardino, California, studying radio and broadcasting.
After leaving the military, Trudell had become involved in Indian activism. In 1969, he became the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' occupation of Alcatraz Island. This was a mostly student-member group that had developed in San Francisco. Trudell went to Alcatraz a week after the occupation started. He used his background in broad...
In 1968, Trudell married his first wife, Fenicia "Lou" Ordonez, divorcing in 1970. They had one son, Wovoka Trudell, who was born on Alcatraz Island; and a daughter, Tara Evonne Trudell. In 1972, Trudell married Tina Manning, an activist of the Duck Valley Shoshone Paiute Tribe.They had three children together: Ricarda Star, Sunshine Karma, and Eli...
In 1979, Trudell met musical artist and activist Jackson Browneand became more interested in the musical world (and recording albums and performing his own compositions in live venues). Trudell recorded an album AKA Grafitti Man ("graffiti" was misspelled in the title) with Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis that was originally available on cassette ta...
About six months after the deaths of his family, Trudell started writing poetry. He described his work, "They're called poems, but in reality they're lines given to me to hang on to."He has written many poems, including "Baby Boom Che" and "Rant and Roll," and hundreds of others. In the 2010s he often shared recent poetic musings and written works-...
Trudell created a career as an actor, performing in roles in Pow Wow Highway (1989), Thunderheart (1992), On Deadly Ground (1994) and Smoke Signals (1998) (as the Radio speaker Randy Peone on K-REZ radio). He was an adviser to the production of Incident at Oglala, directed by Michael Apted and produced by Robert Redford. A kind of companion piece t...
The filmmaker Heather Rae spent more than a decade making a documentary about Trudell, which was released in 2005. Her intent in Trudell (2005) was to demonstrate how his political and cultural activities were tied to contemporary history and inspired people. The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. documentary competition....
John Trudell has appeared on the following albums: 1. 1983 Tribal Voice 2. 1986 aka Graffiti Man (with Jesse Ed Davis) 3. 1987 ...But This Isn't El Salvador(as Tribal Voice) 4. 1987 Heart Jump Bouquet (with Jesse Ed Davis) 5. 1991 Fables and Other Realities 6. 1992 Child's Voice: Children of the Earth(vocals performed by Trudell's daughters) 7. 199...
Trudell, John. Living in Reality: Songs Called Poems, Society of the People Struggling to be Free, 1982, 71 pages, ISBN B001B0TKZOTrudell, John. Stickman: Poems, Lyrics, Talks, edited by Paola Igliori. New York, New York: Inanout Press, 1999, 168 pages, ISBN 978-0962511981Trudell, John. Lines From a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell, Fulcrum Pub, 2008, 280 pages, ISBN 978-1555916787Sep 23, 2017 · Trudell was referring to a pivotal And Cataclysmic Moment in his life: the deaths of his wife Tina, their children Ricarda Star, Sunshine Karma, Eli Changing Sun, unborn son Josiah Hawk, and Tina’s mother Leah Hicks-Manning, in a suspicious fire in their parents’ house in February 1979 at the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada.
Oct 30, 2017 · Tina Manning perished, along with his children Ricarda Star, Sunshine Karma, Eli Changing Sun, unborn son Josiah Hawk, and Tina’s mother Leah Hicks Manning. The family was known to have enemies within local law enforcement, but John believed the fire was “set up” by the FBI as a strategy to silence his protest of the Bureau’s abuses ...
Sunshine Karma Trudell. Birthdate: estimated between 1951 and 2011. Death: Immediate Family: Daughter of John Francis Trudell and Tina Trudell. Sister of Ricarda Star Trudell and Eli Changing Sun Trudell. Managed by: Private User.
Dec 15, 2015 · Tina Manning, her mother, and Manning and Trudell's three children -- Ricarda Star (age 5), Sunshine Karma (3), and Eli Changing Sun (1) -- died in that fire, as did Manning's unborn child, whom she and Trudell had named Josiah Hawk.
