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Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, and what he taught me
Does anyone here know Floyd Westerman whose Indian name was RED CROW? He was not only an actor, but also a singer, and activist of the AIM. One of his citations brought me to the reflexion:
"When the white came to our country, we had the country, and they the Bible. Now they have the country, and we the Bible. A bad exchange."
And in the song "missionaries" he said at the end:
"Bring your white God to your white people, we have a religion of our own"
Missionaries have brought so much bad luck to the native people, have destroyed so much that I ask myself, as can they still sleep? During the fifties and sixties, e.g., a programme had the LDS to bring Indian's children in LDS families . They should get a good school education, and should become like whitw folks (Mormon?). But well-intentioned is not always made good. Thereby destroyed the LDS, - consciously or unconsciously, the social structures more traditionally of Indian family societies. George P.Lee, a Navajo and at that time in the quorum of the Seventies, had criticised this politics of the LDS, and so was excommunicated (apostasy, criticism of the church guidance). Not, nevertheless, because of his sexual infringements on young girls in the neighborhood.
I think to remain once with the Native Americans, this conversion should stop.
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