News from the Front: This was the first John Trudell (Santee Dakota) speech we ever heard. It was recorded in 1980 at the Black Hills Survival Gathering in South Dakota. Listening to it doesn't take a leap of the imagination to understand why the FBI gathered more than 17000 pages on this Native American patriot and described him as "eloquent and therefore very dangerous." John Trudell walked on Tuesday, December 8, 2015.