Dec 15, 2007
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, R.I.P.
Floyd Red Crow Westerman has died at the age of 71.
Westerman is best known as a musician and as an actor who appeared in over 50 films and televison productions, including Dances with Wolves, Hidalgo, DreamKeeper, and multiple episodes of The X-Files. In 2006, he won a NAMMY Award for his third album.
Beyond being an entertainer, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Westerman was an activist, a member of the American Indian Movement and a spokesman for the International Indian Treaty Council. His first album, Custer Died for Your Sins, provided a theme and slogan for the Red Power Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Read his obituary here at Native American Times.
Westerman is best known as a musician and as an actor who appeared in over 50 films and televison productions, including Dances with Wolves, Hidalgo, DreamKeeper, and multiple episodes of The X-Files. In 2006, he won a NAMMY Award for his third album.
Beyond being an entertainer, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Westerman was an activist, a member of the American Indian Movement and a spokesman for the International Indian Treaty Council. His first album, Custer Died for Your Sins, provided a theme and slogan for the Red Power Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Read his obituary here at Native American Times.