From our archives, the April, 2008 Book for the Month featuring John Trudell. The mind is a terrible thing to waste but a mined mind is terrible to be silenced. As poetry month comes to an end, the words that express what the human spirit endures and goes through are set free in John Trudell’s (Santee Sioux) latest book “Lines from a Mined Mind.” The collection of writings – from nearly a quarter century of his life – has converged in one place to help shake loose the restraints of being and intelligence. How does thinking arm the human soul against the world around them? Can out thinking an enemy prove to be mightier than any hand held weapon?