Floyd Red Crow Westerman - "Custer Died For Your Sins"

[Colhad]

Love Native Americans, wished I could have lived like them. Americans have taken their land and are paying for it.

[aminoacid1648856]

Custer is a genocidal bastard

[wbmcmahan]

Custer was no here. I am white and grew up in his "hometown", Monroe Michigan. He was a little man and got what he desearved at Little Bighorn. Unfortuneatly, genocide has been part of histroy since the beginning of mankind. The US is just as guilty as many third world countries are now. Ignorance and intolerance breeds genocide.

[McLm010]

custer and chivington were terrorists..........

[mazaska100]

I had this album many years ago there is so much our people have been thru,but we are still here,lol cant get rid of us ...........,

[CinemaCinder]

My first awareness of Floyd was through his acting. My first look at him onscreen I instantly knew he was a man of great dignity,grace,and hard-earned knowledge. Then by chance I heard this song on the radio one morning and discovered he began his career as a singer. I respected him even more. The Indian side of history should be incorporated into our children's history books,so that we learn the whole story from all angles and perspectives,not just romanticized word-bites that tell us nothing.

[TheWhiteBuster]

Thanks to the internet. Now the world can learn about the whites in the America from the aboriginal side. May the whites go to hell!

[Tw1L1ghtF4LL]

custer was an ass! go thing he was killed. white people cant handle it. what about all the defenceless women and children who were killed in the indian wars? we're not bitching.

[MrBluesforyou]

Custer starb für seine Sünden!!! Thx for Upload

Greets from Germany

[TheBoygeneral]

What a Saint Floyd Red Crow was! Thank you oh great Soul for your wisdom and compassion.

Custer Died for the Sins of White-Christians Europeans who thought it "Manifest Destiny" to conquer North America.

Only one Christian leader (Roger Williams- 1636) paid for the land and broke no treaties! He taught the separation of Church and State. He lived a noble life.

[TheBoygeneral]

Custer did die for the sins of white Christian Europeans, Americans. He paid the price along with his brothers and nephew, his men, their horses. He died at 36 after sacrificing his life for his country. He laid his life down as a noble warrior on the battlefield. Thank you Floyd Red Crow Westerman! Hokahay Hietze!

[jimlap4712]

How freely we speak of courage.

[jimlap4712]

There is no debate re: Crazy Horse/Custer. History is written. Here, Floyd has taken the most famous historical example and used Custer to be Christlike for the Whites. There were so many attrocities committed, and Floyd used this event to highlight the attrocoities, not literally making Custer a Chist.

[SmokeSaddlery]

Forget 9/11, terrorism in this land began in 1492!

[NativeAmerican4Life]

@SmokeSaddlery lol Yes, but there's still a great mount of respect to be held for this day of tragedy. No matter what race we are or what religion we uphold, we ALL faced this particular day united in fear and in courage.

R.I.P to those who lost their lives and thank those who saved many more :')

[jimlap4712]

@NativeAmerican4Life Gotta go with Smoke on this one though.

[TheRavenoak]

O wow wish I found this song sooner! thanks for sharing

[TheAlliswell]

How convenient to blame Custer, If you do the math you will see that Custer was only very manipulated pawn in the "Big picture" not that he wasn't a fool. president Grant wanted the railroads to have unlimited infringement rights on the plains, as far as Custer killing women & children, his command was split and many officers refused to harm non combatants. It was set up for history to view only Custer as the sole villain of the frontier, not the true case. Sherman, Grant, Miles, I have spoken

[foxwilliammulderx]

@TheAlliswell Your very naive. People KNOW there is a biger picture. Some people need a patsy. Use your intelect for a better purpose than picking on people. Fuckin vampie. You like the asshole who goes on a diet not to feel healthy, but to make others feel fat.

[TheAlliswell]

@foxwilliammulderx your response indicates i offended you on the comments page about Custer there seems to be no returning to the past, but only moving forward the burden of anger and resentment is unnecessary baggage in the world we live in.the Crazy Horse and Custer debate will continue decades after we are gone. I might urge u to also use u intellect for a more productive endeavor.

[jimlap4712]

@TheAlliswell Don't carry anger/resentment, that's not the message. The message to carry the strength of REAL indian peoples forward without forgetting what has happened. to our families and our histories. Todays world, yesterdays, or tomorrows, we must always remember, and be strong.

[TheAmonLee]

For all who missed it on the 25th HAPPY CUSTER DAY !!!! :D

[salishbeauty]

to gunny, that's what the song is about, it's not a tribute. June 25.. anniversary of the victory over Custer!

[MrBluesforyou]

Yeah... this Song is very very good!

Greet's from Germany

[walleyrt69]

And the Chief said to me"WeedHopper,we must go become One with the land."So i followed him to the Prairie down buy the Little River.There We both took Big Shits and wiped our asses with Burrdock Leaves.

[SurprizedDaily]

Thank you NativeAmerican4Life for posting all you have of Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman! I have just found his music last night & have became a fan4life! I wish I could find someone to help me with my ancestry. All of my grandmothers, grandfathers records were destroyed by fire in a courthouse in Atoka County Oklahoma! I regret now, not ever asking my late grandparents about our ancestry, when I had the chances to done so!

[coolishmomma]

I feel very fortunate to have heard Floyd Westerman (as he was then known) sing this song. It was many, many years ago. But the message has always stayed with me. I was never able to hear a recording of it until now. Thank you.

[Myowltown]

sad thing is after all these years we are still hurting one day we shall all have our feathers no man shall ever take.........little birds scattered amongst the eagle

[Reason1975]

I just heard of this guy and I'm a fan already

[rewood1]

Custer was a soldier; and obeyed orders from the US Government.......and Custer did not die for my sins; thats for sure.

[SiouxSyndicate]

Custer lol! 27 june...little bighorn...Goodbye!

[johntiessen]

My great Grandfather is Chief Ka-ta-wa-be-da (Broken Tooth) I'm glade I found the one and only true GOD, The GOD of ABRAHAM, the GOD of ISAAC, and the GOD of JACOB. I LIVE IN PECE FOR OUR SHORT LIFE HERE AND WAIT FOR JESUS /watch?v=dkiLVFAIheQ

[aaron4wilkins]

...when Custer died,he wasn't in the United States at the time...

[gunnysgt61]

Give me a break- you paint him as some sort of hero-Custer gave orders to kill women and children- helpless to defend themselves- does that sound like an honorable man? no- Custer had it coming-and he got it.

[SurprizedDaily]

@gunnysgt61 - Very well said. I agree 100%! Sad the foolish did not learn from the past. The killing & oppression still goes on today, all over the globe! All for the greed and love of money & power to oppress peoples! Those giving the orders are the same as they were back then too, "elitist with their noses in the air"! I cannot wait for them to truly get theirs as well! R.I.P. Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman.

[foxwilliammulderx]

@gunnysgt61 You are a moron. LISTEN to the song first before yaping. Do you even know who Floyd Red Crow Westerman is?

[thoostorm4]

@gunnysgt61 CUSTER WAS A BUTCHER SO WAS COLUMBUS

[MillerMusicStudiosTV]

it's so sad and unfair what happened to the native american indians.... so much unfairness has happened in this ol' world.... to so many people...

[Tsukamei]

that was the point of the song. it's saying that custer was the culmination, the epitome, of the wrongs that were done to the native north american tribes. "he died for your sins" as in he died for/because of/representing/fighting for the sins committed against the native north american tribes

[MillerMusicStudiosTV]

Dear Tsukamei ,

Thanks for explaining this to me.....I didn't understand it, but now that you explained that he died fighting for the sins committed against the Indians, I appreciate this song even more. I can't believe people could have been so cruel to them...bless their souls........

Love,

Di

[mjw0047]

Great video!! Yes, Custer died for your sins!! RIP Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman. Your teachings and leagacy will live on.

[alienencounter21]

i like his voice. it doesn't sound like him, but his voice is great. :O)