Floyd Red Crow Westerman
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Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, born in 1936, is a Lakota musician, activist and actor born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota. The elder Lakota in the late 20th century became a leading Native American face depicting Native Americans in American films and television. He is sometimes credited as Floyd Crow Westerman.
Westerman's film and television appearances include the role of the "Shaman" for Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors and as "Ten Bears" in Dances with Wolves. Westerman debuted in "Renegades" in which he played "Red Crow" the Lakota Sioux father of Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles have included playing "Uncle Ray" on Walker, Texas Ranger, and "One Who Waits" on Northern Exposure. Westerman has also written books, including This Land is Your Mother.
Before his entrance in films and television, Westerman had established a solid reputation as a country-western music singer. His recordings offer probing analysis of European influences in Native American communities. In addition to several recordings of his own, Westerman has collaborated with Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Westerman has also been a recognized political advocate for Native American causes, working at times with the American Indian Movement. In 2000, American Indian Expo named Westerman celebrity of the year.
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Quotes
"And I told them not to dig for uranium, for if they did, the children would die. They didn't listen, they didn't listen, they didn't listen to me.
And I told them if the children die, there would be no keepers of the land. They didn't listen.
And I told them if they destroy the sky, machines would come and soon destroy the land. They didn't listen...
And I told them if they destroy the land, man would have to move into the sea. They didn't listen...
And I told them if they destroy the sea -- they didn't listen..."
- From the Floyd Westerman song "They Didn't Listen" as Westerman recited the lyric concluding his testimony in 1992 at the World Uranium Hearings in Salzburg, Austria.
Floyd Westerman Films
- Renegades
- Naturally Native
- The Brave
- Dusting Cliff 7
- Jonathan degli orsi
- Clearcut
- Legends of the West
- Red Crow
- The Doors
- Dances with Wolves
- X-Files
- Powwow Highway (voice)
- We Pray with Tobacco (documentary)
- Last Party 2000 (aka Party's Over USA: video title)
- Hildalgo
- DreamKeeper
- Atlantis: Milo's Return
- Truth and Dare... aka Party On
- Legends of the West
- Grey Owl
Television appearances
- Buffalo Girls
- 500 Nations (voice)
- Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
- Siringo
- The Broken Chain
- Rio Shannon
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Northern Exposure
- Dharma & Greg
- Millennium
- Poltergeist: The Legacy
- The Pretender
- Roseanne
- The X-Files
- Murder, She Wrote
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers (voice)
- Hardball
- L.A. Law
- MacGyver
- Femte port, Den (TV movie)
- Judging Amy
- Baywatch Nights