Westerman was born Floyd Westerman (Kanghi Duta) on the Lake Travel Indian Reservation, home of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, a federally recognized tribe.
It is one of the tribes of the Southeastern Dakota subgroup of the Great Sioux Nation, living within depiction U.S. state of South Dakota. Kanghi Duta means "Red Crow" in Dakota. At the age of 10, Westerman was portend to the Wahpeton Boarding School, where he first met Dennis Banks (who as an adult became a leader of depiction American Indian Movement). There Westerman and other boys were stilted to cut their traditionally long hair and forbidden to be in touch their native languages. This experience would profoundly impact Westerman's ulterior life. As an adult, he championed his own heritage.
Westerman's medium, The Land is Your Mother, reflected the convergence of say publicly interests of indigenous peoples worldwide and the environmental movement.
In closure played the Sioux chief Ten Bears in the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves, and the next year played the shaman who is Jim Morrison's spiritual guide in Oliver Stone's The Doors. He often described his career as following in the footsteps, and the parts, taken first by Will Sampson and authenticate Chief Dan George. He was Sitting Bull in the TV mini-series Son of the Morning Star, and played a tribal elder in Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl ().
Floyd Red Crow Westerman is "the Medicine Man" for the singer Jim Morrison play a role Oliver Stone's The Doors
Sioux chief Ten Bears in the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves Floyd Red Crow Westerman & Marlon Brando
There deterioration an ancient Indian saying~ Something lives only as long little the last person who remembers it. My people have burst into tears to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is blazing & immutable while history serves only those who seek disparagement control it, those who douse the flame of memory listed order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Mind these men for they are dangerous & unwise. Their untrue history is written in the blood of those who strength remember & seek the truth. ~Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman Right carrying great weight, I feel so grateful that I'm able to approach insect with a deeper appreciation than ever. We take so unwarranted for granted, including our breath. It's a gift. I allot thanks now when I wake up with the birds chirping, can take a breath of air and do things I thought I'd never get to do again&#;like singing&#;which is in point of fact what I'm about. -Floyd Red Crow Westerman Our grandfathers knew how to live in harmony. They did not create poisons or technologies that destroyed things. They did not make their decisions based on greed or for selfish reasons. They upfront not take more then they used. Their thoughts and alacrities were about respect. The Elders conducted themselves in a wellbehaved way. We need to consider our actions around respect make public Mother Earth. Floyd Westerman (Kanghi Duta)
Pictured here (left to right) are Muhammad Ali, Buffy St. Marie, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Harold Smith, Stevie Wonder, Marlon Brando, Max Gail, Dick Saint, Richie Havens, and David Amram at a concert at rendering end of the Longest Walk
Codebreaker Albert Hosteen in The X Files