John Trudell - Marriage and Family

Marriage and Family

In 1968, Trudell married his first wife, Fenicia "Lou" Ordonez.

In 1972 Trudell married Tina Manning, an activist of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe. They had three children together: Ricarda Star (girl, age five), Sunshine Karma (girl, three), and Eli Changing Sun (one). In February 1979 Tina (who was pregnant), the children and her mother Leah Hicks-Manning were all killed in a fire at her parents' house on the Duck Valley Reservation. Her father Arthur survived. Trudell was out of town.

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