Name Tina Manning | Education University of Tulsa | |
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Died February 12, 1979, Duck Valley Reservation Spouse John Trudell (m. 1972–1979) Children Sunshine Karma Trudell, Eli Changing Sun Trudell, Ricarda Star Trudell Parents Arthur Manning, Leah Hicks-Manning People also search for John Trudell, Sunshine Karma Trudell | ||
Tina Manning
Tina Manning Trudell was a Paiute-Shoshone water rights activist and wife of John Trudell, Manning was the daughter of Arthur and Leah Hicks Manning. Her father had served as the tribal chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation. She attended the University of Tulsa, where first she met John Trudell.
She was killed, along with her unborn baby (Josiah Hawk), three other children–Ricarda Star, Sunshine Karma, and Eli Changing Sun–and her mother in a suspicious fire on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northern Nevada on 12 February 1979. Her father survived the fire but was badly burned.
The fire took place less than 12 hours after John Trudell had delivered a speech in front of FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, during which he burned a United States flag.