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name: "Floyd Red Crow Westerman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/floyd-red-crow-westerman"
fi1m_id: "floyd-red-crow-westerman"
imdb_id: "nm0922671"
tmdb_id: 7862
wikidata_id: "Q739660"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 August 1936"
died: "13 December 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:44:03.661160+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Floyd Red Crow Westerman

## Identity

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/floyd-red-crow-westerman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** floyd-red-crow-westerman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0922671
- **TMDB ID:** 7862
- **Wikidata ID:** Q739660
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Westerman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739660, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922671/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7862

Actor. Born 17 August 1936 in Lake Traverse Indian Reservation. Died 13 December 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 August 1936, Lake Traverse Indian Reservation
- **Died:** 13 December 2007
- **Also known as:** Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Kanghi Duta, Floyd Westerman, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Red Crow
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Westerman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739660, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922671/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7862

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dances with Wolves*](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md) (80)

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## Biography

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (also credited as Floyd Westerman and Kanghi Duta) was a Sisseton Dakota actor, musician and political activist. He was born on 17 August 1936 on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in South Dakota and died on 13 December 2007 in Los Angeles.

After a career as a country singer and songwriter, he began acting in the late 1980s. His film roles included appearances in *Renegades* (1989), *Dances with Wolves* (1990) as Ten Bears, and *The Doors* (1991). He also appeared in television series including *The X-Files*, *Walker, Texas Ranger* and *Dharma & Greg*.

Westerman was active in the American Indian Movement and campaigned for Native American and environmental causes, performing benefit concerts with musicians such as Willie Nelson and touring with Sting.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), Fi1m 80, as Ten Bears — [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White* (2011), Actor
- *Swing Vote* (2008), as Chief Running Bear
- *The Legend of Tillamook's Gold* (2006), as Standing Elk
- *Hidalgo* (2004), as Chief Eagle Horn
- *Dreamkeeper* (2003), as Iron Spoon
- *Graduation Night* (2003), as Old Man
- *Naturally Native* (1999), as Chairman Pico
- *Dharma & Greg* (1997), series, as George Littlefox
- *The Brave* (1997), as Papa
- *Dusting Cliff 7* (1997), as Indian Bob
- *Millennium* (1996), series, as Old Indian
- *Baywatch Nights* (1995), series, as Wahote
- *Siringo* (1995), as Plenty Wounds
- *Buffalo Girls* (1995), as No Ears
- *Jonathan of the Bears* (1995), as Chief Tawanka
- *Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee* (1994), as Mary's Grandfather
- *Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion* (1994), as Uncle Ray
- *The Broken Chain* (1993), as Tribe Elder
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, as Albert Hosteen — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *Rio Shannon* (1993), as Gabriel
- *Walker, Texas Ranger* (1993), series, as Uncle Ray Firewalker
- *Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger* (1993), as Uncle Ray Firewalker
- *The Dakota Conflict* (1993), Actor
- *Earth and the American Dream* (1992), as Reader (voice)
- *Legends of the West* (1992), as Co-Host / Self - Sitting Bull
- *Clearcut* (1991), as Wilf Redwing
- *The Doors* (1991), as Shaman
- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), as Ten Bears — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)
- *Captain Planet and the Planeteers* (1990), series, Actor
- *Northern Exposure* (1990), series, as One-Who-Waits — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/northern-exposure.md)
- *Renegades* (1989), as Red Crow
- *Powwow Highway* (1989), as CB Radio Voice (voice)
- *MacGyver* (1985), series, as Two Eagles
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Uncle Ashie Nakai

## Gallery

- ![Floyd Red Crow Westerman](https://film.one/media/person/77418/gallery-56fd52a354fa.jpg) Floyd Red Crow Westerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Floyd Red Crow Westerman](https://film.one/media/person/77418/gallery-26ac8299d44f.jpg) Floyd Red Crow Westerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Floyd Red Crow Westerman](https://film.one/media/person/77418/gallery-08eeb7287c29.jpg) Floyd Red Crow Westerman — Image via TMDB

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