Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman bids farewell to this world and sends a special greeting to his Irish friends. American Indian Movement "Minister of Culture" passes into the spirit world.
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman died today. The actor and musician was a leading figure in the American Indian Movement for 40 years. His most famous role was "Chief Ten Bears" in Dances with Wolves.
Bill Means describes the US Government reaction to the American Indian Movement in the 1970's. The 1972 takeover of the BIA and negotiations with the White House Watergate criminals.
IRA Commander and Hunger Striker Brendan Hughes died 16 February 2008. OC of the prison protests from 1976 to 1980 that led to the 1981 Hunger Strike. A legend in the fight for Irish Freedom.
Story of American Indian Movement Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier. Interviews with Dennis Banks and attorney Larry Leventhal. Song "Quiet Desperation" by Floyd "Red Crow" westerman.
Images to the great Public Enemy early rap against the power structure. Great Civil Rights footage including video of the Klu Klux Klan. Ends with images of the Bush Regime.
Bill Means describes the events of February 27, 1973 that led to the occupation of Wounded Knee. The meeting at Calico, the FBI in Pine Ridge and the first shots are fired.
The brutal murder of Wesley Bad Heart Bull in Buffalo Gap, SD in 1973. American Indian Movement demands that murder charges are filed at the Custer Courthouse on feb 6, 1973. Bill Means remembers.
The American Indian Movement is born on July 28, 1968. Forty years later the struggle for Treaty Rights continues and Leonard Peltier is spending his 32nd year in prison. A political prisoner of the U.S. Government.
Bill Means describes the first 24 hours of the 1973 occupation of wounded Knee. The American Indian Movement is surrounded by U.S. Marshalls, the FBI and BIA police. BIA police fire the first shots.
Interviews recorded at the 1976 International indian Treaty Conference. In memory of Red Crow listen to the Indian point of view before it is too late to save the planet.
Bill Means of the American Indian Movement describes the "reign of terror" on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the early 1970's. Highest murder rate in America.
Unauthorized video of Bob Dylans great classic "Masters of War". Images of Vietnam war, civil rights, klan, Bush, MLK, John Lennon and closes with a quote from Frederick Douglas.
Media falsely reports that there are white hostages inside of wounded knee. Bill Means describes the events of the first days of the takeover. International media prevents a repeat of the slaughter of 1890.
In 1864 Colonel John Chivington attacked the Cheyenne camp of Chief Black Kettle with 700 men. Henriette Mann tells the story of this massacre. She is a relative of one of the survivors.
Lakota Indian Mr. Bill Means tells how his mother taught him to stand up to racism as a young boy. Whites calling him redskin and timber nigger on the athletic field.
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