Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Floyd " Red Crow " Westerman ( born August 17, 1936 in South Dakota, † December 13, 2007 in Los Angeles ) was an American singer, actor and American Indian activist with the American Indian Movement (AIM ).
Life and career
Westerman was from the tribe of Dakota and grew up in the reserve Sisseton Wahpeton - in the U.S. state of South Dakota on. As a teenager, he was separated from his parents and placed in a so-called " Boarding School ", in which you tried to give him " drive out " language and values of his people. During this time he met Dennis Banks know that one of the founders of AIM in 1968. Floyd Westerman took part in the World Uranium Hearing, which until September 18, 1992 took place from 13 in Salzburg.
In German-speaking Westerman obtained including " Ten Bears " by the film The Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner and as a decryption specialist " Albert Hosteen " in six episodes of the TV series The X-Files fame. Overall, he played in more than 50 film and television productions. He released three country albums in which he sang, among others, about the very controversial among the Indians Bureau of Indian Affairs or Wounded Knee.
On the occasion of his concert in 1992 at the International Workshop days in Walsrode Floyd Westerman said: " The cities will perish! " " Embrace a tree, the trees are our telegraph., We talk about them with all that is important to us. Give your worries to the tree. He is savior, preserver. " About this concert Floyd Westerman reported Angela Hoffmann in her story "Under the magnolia tree ". . "The Indians took the stage It was he, therefore, who had met her in the forest ' The cities will fall, ' he said, 'I have. the civil war in Los Angeles experienced., Western civilization is at the end. It is only a matter of time before and like the other cities of America and the rest of the world fall. ' He sang songs that went to the heart, just as you can not describe. Like birds that sail in the storm. There was no reason to hold back the tears. Trees had telegraphs, which one can confide his troubles, he said. Indians ' the trees protect and guide us,' would take on the trees with their ancestors contact. 'he said. ' Please do not take pictures now! '. asked the Indians and turned slowly in all four directions, although his language was foreign to them, the content of prayer shared with everyone: He asked Mother Earth for forgiveness and apologized to the elements and forces of nature. "