Red Thunder Cloud [clippings].
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Red Thunder Cloud, 1919-1996
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Red Thunder Cloud (born May 30, 1919, Newport, Rhode Island – died January 8, 1996, Worcester, Massachusetts), born Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, also known as Carlos Westez, was a singer, dancer, storyteller, and field researcher. For a time he was promoted by anthropologists as "the last fluent speaker of the Catawba language" but he was later revealed to have learned what little he knew of the language from books. The grandson of a prominent African-American attorney and community leader, Red...
