Terry Pace
Floyd Red Crow Westerman: Wounded Knee
Updated: Apr 2, 2020
Floyd Red Crow Westerman (RIP 1936-2007). The song here is "Wounded Knee". A song about betrayal and resistance. He is a member of the Sisseton-Wapheton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. To the white world he is most famous as the actor who played "Ten Bears" in the movie Dances with Wolves. He was an accomplished Indigenous activist, musician and actor. His music is a spiritual journey through his life and times and with the American Indian experience in the United States.