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https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/trudell.jpg19201080Combining images and archival footage with interviews and performances, Trudell reveals the philosophy and motivations behind Native American activist and poet John Trudell's work and its relationship to contemporary Indian history.