Indian Country

Recorded live at Town Hall, N.Y.C. Floyd Westerman, full-blooded Sioux Indian, was born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux reservation in Veblen, South Dakota, on August 17, 1940. At the age of two, Floyd was taken from his parents and placed in a Catholic Mission a few miles from the reservation. "If he was good", he was permitted to visit his parents on the weekends. At the age of sevent, the government Indian boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota removed him completely from his home a...