Custer Died For Your Sins, by Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Custer Died For Your Sins

by Floyd Red Crow Westerman

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1.	Custer Died For Your Sins 04:04	buy track
2.	Missionaries 02:31	buy track
3.	World Without Tomorrow 03:24	buy track
4.	Goin' Back 03:10	buy track
5.	35 More Miles 03:29	buy track
6.	Red White And Black 02:01	buy track
7.	Where Were You When 03:01	buy track
8.	Here Come The Anthros 02:47	buy track
9.	They Didn't Listen 03:11	buy track
10.	Task Force 01:46	buy track
11.	B.I.A. 02:24	buy track
12.	How Long Have You Been Blind 03:35	buy track
13.	B.I.A. 04:46	buy track
14.	Chante Waste Wi 04:29	buy track
15.	Quiet Desperation 03:59	buy track
16.	Rabbit Dance Song 01:08	buy track
17.	Sun Moon And Tears 02:43	buy track
18.	Joseph 03:01	buy track
19.	Or Do You Care 02:07	buy track
20.	Wounded Knee 02:27	buy track
21.	The Land Is You Mother 03:18	buy track
22.	Sioux Rabbit Song 01:36	buy track

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From Our Hearts Thank You Vine Deloria Jr.

By a thousand campfires, traveling the endless miles of reservation frustration, huddling in the desolate urban centers and Indian bars, the soul of the American Indian cries out to his gods for justification.

Until now there has been no answer, no joyous cry of freedom. With this album. Floyd Westerman takes the giant step across cultures to bring the anguish and unquenchable pride of the American Indian to the forefront.

Raised in government boarding schools, supporting himself since he was fourteen, victim and conqueror of the society that betrayed his ancestors, Floyd is the only person who could have done these songs.

A veteran of the contemporary Indian movement, his rendition of Where Were You When? reflects the bitterness of those who have fought too hard only to be shunted aside in favor of newly arrived "Indian experts" who have all the answers.

The defiant title song, Custer Died For Your Sins, could only be sung by one who has glimpsed the Indian renaissance in the reservation backwash of American society.

Thirty-five More Miles, the story of Floyd's mother represents the senseless waste of Indian lives by a society that does not understand and could not learn to care.

Red, White and Black and Missionaries tell of the struggle against hopeless odds which seeks to create in American society new sense of the dimensions of cultures.

Floyd was born to sing these songs and they were written in search of a singer like Floyd. Like the eyapaha, the cryer of old who summoned the camp to action, Floyd will provide the spark, the badly needed war songs that thousands have waited to hear. Hear him well.

The songs, brilliantly penned by Jimmy Curtiss, are a testimony to Jimmy's ability to transcend time and space and live with the people in their sorrow and triumphs, to understand their sense of hopelessness and yet to see their vision.

With this album the continental divide of oppression is crossed and a new day begins. Remember it as the years pass and a new history for the American Indian is forged out of the decades. Remember how the world was before the songs were heard. The day is corning when you will not remember how it started — that it started with this record.

Vine Deloria Jr.

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released April 7, 2021

Floyd Westerman: Vocals, Rythm Guitar
John Palmer Trivers: Bass
Bob Abrahams: Acoustic Lead Guitar
Jerry Shook: Harp, Dobro
Barry Lazarowitz: Drums
J.C. (Jim Curtiss): Rhythm Guitar
Pete Drake: Steel Guitar
Credits
Produced by Jimmy Curtis & Terry Philips
All Songs Published by PoPdraw Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Cover Photograph by Stan Moldoff
Inside liner painting, After the Battle by J. K. Ralston owned and copyrighted by Mrs. Don C. Foote, Billings, Montana
Album Design by J. C.
Recorded at Al Studios, New York City and Music City Recorders, Nashville, Tenn.
Lyrics based upon the book "Custer Died For Your Sins" by Vine Deloria, Jr.
First published by the Macmillan Company, N.Y. and Collier-Macmillan LTD, London in 1969.
Copyright © 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr.

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