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Floyd Red Crow Westerman (1936-) is a Dakota musician, activist and actor born on the Lake Traverse Reservation, home of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Dakota (Sioux) in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The elder Dakota in the late 20th century became a leading actor depicting Native Americans in American films and television. He is sometimes credited as Floyd Crow Westerman.

At the age of 10, he was sent to the Wahpeton Boarding School, where he first met Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement.

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. Westerman also appeared as Standing Elk alongside his long-time friend Max Gail in the 2006 family film, Tillamook Treasure. He can be seen as well in the beginning of Hidalgo, as the Chief in Buffalo Bill's circus.

His television roles have included playing "Uncle Ray" on Walker, Texas Ranger, "One Who Waits" on Northern Exposure and multiple appearances as "Albert Hosteen" on the X-Files.

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. Before that, he had earned a degree in secondary education from Northern State University in South Dakota.

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.

From 2003-2007, Westerman appeared in a number of television advertisements for "Lakota" brand topical pain reliever, often wearing traditional Native dress.

"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.

"There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth." -Floyd Westerman as Albert Hosteen in The X-Files episode "The Blessing Way"

• Tillamook Treasure
• Renegades
• Naturally Native
• The Brave
• Dusting Cliff 7
• Jonathan degli orsi
• Clearcut
• Legends of the West
• Red Crow
• The Doors
• Dances with Wolves
• Powwow Highway (voice)
• We Pray with Tobacco (documentary)
• Last Party 2000 (aka Party's Over USA: video title)
• Hidalgo
• DreamKeeper
• Atlantis: Milo's Return
• Truth and Dare... aka Party On
• Legends of the West
• Grey Owl

• 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
• Lakota commercials

• Custer Died for Your Sins (1969)
• The Land is Your Mother (1982)
• A Tribute to Johhny Cash (2006)

• Floyd Red Crow Westerman at the Internet Movie Database
• Radio Profile of Floyd Westerman