Filmmaker urges understanding of Indian culture, spirituality

[Waya]

John Trudell doesn’t mince his words when it comes to addressing the state of American Indian affairs.

“When I look at the state of Native America, our people, we’re surrounded by chaos,” Trudell told listeners Thursday night at Haskell Indian Nations University.

Trudell, a poet, musician and one-time prominent activist for the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, spoke in Lawrence as a prelude to screening his documentary and addressing the Haskell Commencement Pow Wow tonight.

On the surface, Trudell’s comments Thursday showed a grim outlook.

“The state of Native America today is just as precarious a situation now as it was in the 1700s and 1600s,” he said...........



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