Red Haircrow (Director & Producer) is an award-winning writer, game developer, educator, psychologist and filmmaker who is Native (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) and African American. He was born in Germany to a US military family, and grew up mostly in Alabama and Tennessee stateside.

He holds a Master’s in Native American Studies from MSU Bozeman, a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology, counsels selectively. Their articles and interviews have been published in news sources such as Indian Country Today, STERN, Deutsche Welle, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Mother Jones, among others.

Red Haircrow’s continuing research focuses on Indigenous and other intergenerational historic trauma, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, suicide prevention and GLBTIIQ needs. Through their multimedia consultation company, Flying With Red Haircrow Productions, they explores opportunities for collaboration and cooperation in education, film, art, music & more. More details such as videography, bibliography/publications and current projects can be found at www.redhaircrow.com.

Current projects include a world indigenous educational video game, continuing research on stigma and prejudice relating to psychological disorders and conditions such as ASD, and support of Chiricahua Apache N’de Nation Independent Sovereignty and Self-Sustainability.

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Interested in our work, projects or a presentation for your group, class or organization? Contact us.

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• Reviewer/Editor List
• Vimeo and YouTube
• IMDB profile

Current & Upcoming Events

• 7 February 2024 – “Indian” Is Not A Costume” & “Twice Colonized” screening, Salzburg, Austria

Board of Directors & Other Affiliations

• Secretary (2017-2019) Native Research Network
• Mentorship Committee Liaison (2019-2020) Society of American Indian/Alaska Native Psychologists (SIP)
• Member of SIP since 2014
• Member of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS) since 2014
• Previous or current member of American Psychological Association (APA), Division 45 Culture & Minority Studies, and Global Practice Network

Honors & Awards

• 2023 Winner Ma’iingan Scholarship Award winner as an early career psychologist in Two-spirit, LGBTQ+, gender fluid, nonbinary and other gender expansive support work
• 2019 Finalist Overcome Film Festival in San Bernadino, CA, USA for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2019 Semi-finalist Courage Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2019 Semi-finalist A Rebel Minded Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2018 Winner Audience Award at Refugees Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2018 Best in Category Buddha Film Festival Pune, India, for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2018 Semi-finalist LosAngeles CineFest, USA for Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way
• 2013 Finalist Contemporary LGBT Fiction at Rainbow Awards for The Agony of Joy
• 2013 Winner LGBT Fiction at Global eBook Awards for The Agony of Joy
• 2012 Winner LGBT Biography at Rainbow Awards for Silence is Multi-Colored in my World

Fiction:

• A Lieutenant’s Love 
• Convenience Store Romance 
• Night Shift
• Katrdeshtr’s Redemption 
• The House of Doom, Dreams and Desire 
• The Coat: Secrets of a Hatcheck Boy 
• The Angel of Berlin 
• The Caravaggio and the Swan
• We, The Dead (Danse Macabre Magazine)
  
• Varney the Vampire Remixed
• The Agony of Joy (Global E-Book Awards Winner 2013, Best in Category, Finalist Rainbow Awards 2013)
• Variance: A Short Story Collection
• Child of Light, a short interactive fiction game
• The Angel of Berlin, a short interactive fiction game

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Non-Fiction

• Varied Spirits, Vol.1 Anthology (editor, contributor) (31 March 2023)
• Terming Us into New Obscurity, contributor in #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken – Zusammen als People of Color?! Überlegungen zu nachhaltiger Community-Zusammenarbeit III at xart splitta (2  Dec 2022)
• The Color of Your Skin & Threatened by Beads, two poems in “Risings Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution” by University Press (Jan, 2022)
• The Color of Your Skin & Threatened by Beads, two poems in Geschichte schreiben or “Writing History” in Neue Rundschau 2018/2 “Geschichte schreiben“, S. Fischer Verlage (July, 2018)
• Threatened by Beads & The Color of Your Skin in Red Ink: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities (Nov/Dec. 2016)
• The Mountains Are My Kingdom in Red Rising Magazine (May 2016)
• CORE: A Poetry Collection (March 2014)
• Big Mama’s Pears in American Athenauem, Sword & Saga Press (March 31, 2013)
• Eight Poems in Sibling Rivalry Press’ Assaracus Magazine  (January 10, 2013)
• Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World (Rainbow Award Winner 2012 Best Gay Biography)
• Songs of the Universal Vagabond (August, 2, 2011)

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Indian Country Today Media Network Articles (ICT*):

• Germany’s Obsession With American Indians Is Touching–And Occasionally Surreal
• A Star Trek Convention for Native Enthusiasts: Inside a German ‘Pow-wow’
• Tribes Demand Return of Native Scalps From Karl May Museum (local)
• Agreement Reached Regarding Scalps at Karl May Museum
• Karl May Museum’s Lastest on Human Remains? WE Decide, Not You. We’re in Control. #Repatriation (related story, local, with interview.)
• Meet WiggleTooth, Germany’s Stereotypical Indian
• Naked Faux Savages and Neo-Racism in Berlin”
• “Ich bin ein Tonto”-Johnny Depp Premieres “Lone Ranger” in Berlin (local)

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Lectures, Events, Workshops & Exhibitions

• “Spiel mit der Zeit” live show, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin, Germany (Nov 2023-Jan 2024)
• Koloniale Kontinuitäten “Mächtig unFair”. Screening & guest speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” in cooperation with Oldenburg University, Germany and Cine K Theatres.
• Screening & Guest Speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” in cooperation with Culturitical group and Christian Albrecht University at Kiel, Germany (3 May 2023)
• Lecture – “Dismantling The Architecture and Refurbishment of Indigenous Trauma” in cooperation with Saarbrücken University (3 Dec 2022)
• Workshop – “Righting History – How Historical Amnesia and Omission Fuels the New Rise of Normalized” in cooperation with xart splitta for “Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between”, and the Living Archives.
• Lecture – “Beyond the Bubble – The Need for Variance. Recognizing and fulfilling the needs of adaptability and variance in harm free ways” at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria (10 Nov 2022)
• Lecture – “Dismantling the Architecture and Refurbishment of Indigenous Trauma” in cooperation with Saarbrücken University, Saarbrücken, Germany (3 Nov 2022)
• Presentation – “Native stereotypes and their connection to racism, colonialism, and deep societal issues” at Beethoven Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany (Dec 2021-Jan 2022)
• Workshop Series – “Indigenous history is World history – Critical Understanding” at Freie University, Berlin, Germany (Dec 2021-January 2022)
• Special screening – “International Weeks Against Racism,” in cooperation with Friedensau Adventist University, “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (23 March 2021)
• Special screening –  “Schwarz ist der Ozean” (Ausstellung) at Exil – Osnabrücker Zentrum für Flüchtlinge e.V., “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way”(27 February 2021)
• Special discussion, German Writers and Race: Modern Germany’s Cognitive Dissonance on Racism and its Roots in Karl May’s Legacy at Brandeis University, 30 November 2020.
• Special Event – “Playing Indian” at Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg (29 September 2020)
• Seminar – “Critical Perspectives of Native Americans for Daycare, School and Society” at ISTA Berlin (14-15 September 2020)
• Radio Podcast – “Don’t Frack the NT” at Reboot.FM (with Que Kenny & Rachel O’Reilly) on 8 Dec 2019
• Special screening – “Unseen // Unheard: The Indigenous perspective” ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin (4 Dec 2019)
• Special screening -Discussion: “Why are Natives/Indigenous often left out of racism conversations in Germany?” at Xart Splitta (21 Nov. 2019)
• Special screening- Indigenous Film & Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado (14 Oct 2019)
• Official selection – Balkan Can Kino Film Festival in Athens, Greece (10 Oct 2019)
• Special screening – Bildungswerk Berlin Heinrich Böll Stiftung at FSK Kino am Oranienplatz (7 Sept 2019)
• Special screening – “Wer lebt mit wem sommercamp” (18 July 2019, Waltershausen, Germany)
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” Screening and Q&A at Institut für den Situationsansatz, May 24, 2019.
• “Forget Winnetou” Screening & Discussion at “BLUTSBRÜDER” Exhibition at Museumquartier Osnabrück, April 26, 2019.
• “Can you copyright culture?” at dBs Music/Film Berlin, March 13, 2019.
• “Identity in Contemporary Native Literature” at Humboldt University in Berlin, Jan. 2019
• “identity.intersectionality.indigeneity” (film series) in cooperation with xart splitta, Berlin, Nov.7-Dec.5, 2018.
• “identity.intersectionality.indigeneity” (lecture) facilitated by TU Dresden for the “Courage! 2018” Series, Dresden, Nov. 15, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (screening) at Kino im Kasten, Dresden, Nov. 14, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (screening) at Refugees Welcome Film Festival, Berlin, Oct. 29, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” (screening) at Daneben im Tröpferlbad, Munich, Oct. 23, 2018.
• “Forget Winnetou! How projections become reality” at TRAFO Ideenkongress in Halle (Saale), Sept. 19, 2018. AUDIO
• TRAFO-Ideenkongress zu Kultur, Alltag & Politik auf dem Land in Halle (Saale), Sept. 19, 2018.
• Racism: The Invention of Human Races at Deutsches Hygiene Musuem in Dresden, May 19, 2018-January 6, 2019. Excerpt from documentary film “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way.”
• Reclaiming the Ancestors at Berlin Postkolonial Transnational Conference on Prussian Colonial Heritage, October 2017.
• Native American Reparation Movements for Reparation Days Events by BREBIT, October 2017.
• Contemporary Native History at Christian Ernst Gymnasium, Erlangen, July 2017.
• #RepresentationMatters: Decolonizing Indigeneity. Forget Winnetou at Humboldt University, June 2017.
• Native Filmmakers Strike Back! at Saarbrücken University, June 2017.
• Dakota Access Pipeline: Protests, politics and the coverage – The Listening Post, Al Jazeera, Dec. 2016.
• Native American History-Past & Present including Standing Rock at Gymnasium Melle in Melle, Germany (Nov. 2016).
• Dispelling the Myths/Gegen den Mythos at the Tages des indigenen Films for Elements e.V. in Rostock, Germany (Nov. 2014).
• Representation of Indigenous in Film/Repräsentationen Indigener im Film at the Tages des indigenen Films for Elements e.V. in Rostock, Germany (Nov. 2015).
  

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Academic Work (at Academia.edu) & Citations (Google Scholar)

• Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Natives: Cultural Competency & Support (2019)
• Research Report-Effects of Ethnicity-Related Experiences on Native or Indigenous People (2018)
• Historical and Contemporary Perceptions and Experiences of Natives with Mixed Ethnic Ancestry (2018)
• The Relevance and Necessity of Indigenous Knowledge (2017)
• There Should be No Native Mascot Discussion (2017)
• The Challenges of Indigenous Studies: A voice from both sides of the desk (2016)
• Ice Engineering Principles Comparison: Native American Historical Trauma (2016)

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Other Articles, Comments, Podcasts & Interviews:

• “The Indigenous have already experienced their Apocalypse” – Interview on “Alles Muss Raus” – (Oct 2023)

• Faschingskostüme: Ist Rassismus vielen egal? (Video Interview) at recap bei MDR.de (Feb 2023)

• Karneval: Warum es immer noch “Blackfacing” und “Indianer”-Kostüme gibt (Article) at MDR.de (Feb 2023)
• “Das Problem an #Winnetou: Ein Psychologe über Rassismus und die deutsche Obsession mit dem Wilden Westen” (Interview) at Tagesspiegel (August 2022)
• Mitglied der Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee verurteilt Neuauflage von Winnetou: “Hier geht es um Geldmacherei” (Interview) at STERN.DE (August 2022)
• #MayflowersKill campaign (interviewee on Instagram) at Survival International (October 2021)
• “The Frankfurt Book Fair Sheds Light on Germany’s Strange Obsession with Indigenous Culture” by Francesca Bianco at Montecristo Magazine (Autumn 2021)
• “Neue Erfurcht vom altem Wissen” at Zeitwissen (September/October 2021)
• “Ich bin kein Kostüm!” (documentary participant) by Karsten Gravert at 3Sat Kultur (7 February 2021)
• “German ‘Wild West’ museum to repatriate Native American scalp” at Deutsche Welle, article & video (24 November 2020)
• Stereotype im Kinderalltag: Was Federn, Pfeile und Prärie mit Rassismus zu tun haben at die Tagesspiele (October 16, 2020) Interview
• “When I Think About America” at Medium.com (Feb. 2020) Personal Essay
• Why Germany can’t quit its racist Native American problem at Deutsche Welle (February 26, 2020) Article
• Liebevolles Klischee at Neues Deutschland (July 13, 2019) Article
• Kostüme sind nicht unschüldig at Zeit Online. Article.
• The Indian Citizenship Act at WDR5 Radio Studios (June 2, 2019) RADIO
• “Can you copyright culture? at dBs  Film & Music Studios Berlin (March 20, 2019) VIDEO
• “Indianer-Kostüm-Verbot Das sagen die Nachfahren amerikanischer Ureinwohner dazu” at Hamburger Morgenpost. Article.
• “Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: Twin Cosmos of the Indigenous World” by Barbara Alice Mann (review), for NAISA,  Vol.5.1 2018, University of Minnesota.
• “AKA Through the ‘White Lens’” on RT UK (September 21, 2018) VIDEO
• Unspoken Cultures on The Electric Sheep Film Show (September 19, 2018) PODCAST
• Ideenkongress zu Kultur, Alltag & Politik auf dem Land at TRAFO (September 19, 2018) VIDEO
• Vergesst Winnetou (Film review & comment) at OYA Magazine. In Deutsch. (April 2018)
• Searching For Winnetou (Documentary interview) at CBC Docs (January, 28, 2018) VIDEO
• ‘Native’ Hobbyism is Modern Day Colonialism at CBC.CA (January 26, 2018)
• Film ‘Forget Winnetou!’ studies German idealization of Indigenous culture at Rabble.ca (May 31, 2017)
• Ich bin nur dem Nein begegnet at Der Freitag Newspaper (March 24, 2017)
•  Project Forget Winnetou at Deutschlandradio Kultur Kompressor Radioshow (March 14, 2017) PODCAST & INTERVIEW
•  Red Haircrow at Süddeutsche Zeitung (March 3, 2017) INTERVIEW
• Standing Rock & Indigenous Sovereignty at The Voices Radioshow on Reboot.fm (Nov. 19, 2016) PODCAST
• Professions-What do “Real Natives” Do? at Red Rising Magazine (Jan. 4, 2017)
• Kulturelle Aneignung und koloniale Gewaltat Missy Magazine (Nov. 3, 2016)
• The Songs We Sing-Or We Don’t Sing at K.I.N. Knowledge in Indigenous Networks (Oct. 1, 2016)
• The Challenges of Indigenous Studies in “Our Schools/Our Selves” Vol. 26, no.1 (Fall 2016) published by The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• A Voice From Both Sides of the Desk: Indigenous Studies at Red Rising Magazine (August 2, 2016)
• “Dues Paid”: A Navajo Metal Band in Denmark at Red Rising Magazine (July 11, 2016)
• The Challenges of Indigenous Studies in “Mixed Company” at K.I.N. Knowledge in Indigenous Networks (July 29, 2016)
• Im Wilden Osten at STERN Magazine (Sept. 3, 2015)
• Last of the Munichans at Mother Jones Magazine (July/August 2015)
• Cowboys & Indianer at Ex-Berliner Magazine (July/Aug. 2014)
• Battle Over an Ojibwe Scalp at Deutsche Welle TV (May 2014) VIDEO
• Red Haircrow Interview at PULS (July 2014)
• Dressing Up as Cowboys & Indians Is Big in Germany at Global Post (June 2014)
• Hirnloser Trend oder bewusste Provokation? at PULS (June 2014)
• Interview // Red Haircrow at PULS (June 2014)

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Book Trailers by Red Haircrow:

• CORE: A Poetry Collection
• Variance
• The Angel of Berlin
• Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World
• The Agony of Joy

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Films & Music Videos at Flying With Red Haircrow Productions:

• Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way (2018)
• Master Session 2018 by Uli Lenz
• City to Seaside by Uli Lenz
• The Dog from Tula by Uli Lenz & Red Haircrow
• Conejitos Amarillos by Uli Lenz & Red Haircrow
• Siempre Y Para Siempre by Uli Lenz
• Love Channel by Uli Lenz
• Blue Lips by Uli Lenz
• Soul Eyes by Uli Lenz
• The Joyous Piano Salon by Uli Lenz
• Korean Maze by 105 Lenz Kubach Johnson Jazz Trio

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Documentary Film Trailers

• Extra scene “Manuel” (2019) for ALMOST
• Trailer (2019) for ALMOST
• Film Teaser with Laurels (2019) for Forget Winnetou!
• Film Trailer 2018 (2018) for Forget Winnetou!
• Official Interview Trailer (2017) for Forget Winnetou!
• 1st Promo Trailer for Forget Winnetou! (2017)

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Documentary “Forget Winnetou!” (2018) Official Selections, Special Screenings & Awards

• ““Indian” Is Not A Costume” Discussion & “Twice Colonized” Documentary screening, Salzburg, Austria (7 Feb 2024)
• “Forget Winntou! Loving in the Wrong Way” screening, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. (26 Oct 2023)
• “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” screening + Q&A, Freiburg, Germany. (18 Oct 2023)
• Screening & Guest Speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” with cooperation with Oldenburg University and Cine K Theatres. (10 May 2023)
  Screening & Guest Speaker – “Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way” in cooperation with Culturitical and Christian Albrechts University at Kiel (3 May 2023)
• Special Screening – “Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus” – Theologischen Hochschule Friedensau & “Demokratie leben! – Partnerschaft für Demokratie Burg und südliches Jerichower Land” (23 March 2021)
• Special Screening – “Schwartz ist der Ozean” series at Exil – Osnabrücker Zentrum für Flüchtlinge e.V. (27 February 2021, Osnabrück)
• Special Screening – Unseen Unheard // Indigenous Film Screening at ACUD MACHT NEU (4 December 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Special Screening & Discussion – Xart Splitta (21 November 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Finalist – Overcome Film Festival (October 2018, San Bernadino, CA, USA)
• Film Festival – Indigenous Film & Arts Festival (14 October 2019, Denver, Colorado)
• Film Festival – Balkan Can Film Festival in (10 October, 2019, Athens, Greece)
• Special Screening – Heinrich Böll Stiftung Bildungswerk Berlin (7 September 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Special Screening – Institut für den Situationsansatz (24 May 2019, Berlin, Germany)
• Special Screening -“Blütsbruder” Exhibition (26 April 2019, Osnabrück, Germany)
• Semi-finalist – Courage Film Festival 2019 (Berlin, Germany)
• Semi-finalist -A Rebel Minded Festival 2019 (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
• Refugees Welcome Film Festival (Oct. 29, 2018, Berlin, Germany) AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
• Special Screening – PAVED Arts & Wanuskewin Galleries, (January 2019, Saskatoon, SK, Canada)
• Special Screening – Kino in Kasten in cooperation with Technische Universität Dresden (Nov. 14, 2018, Dresden, Germany)
• Native Spirit Film Festival (October 11-21, 2018, London, England, UK)
• NatiVisions Film Festival (29 September 2018, Parker, AZ, USA)
• Indigenous Film Festival (August 2-3, 2018, Pine Ridge, SD, USA)
• Buddha Film Festival (June 9-10, 2018, Pune, Maharashtra, India) BEST IN CATEGORY AWARD WINNER
• First Nations Film & Video Festival (May 1-10, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Semi-finalist- LosAngeles CineFest (April 2018)
• Finalist- Miami Epic Trailer Festival (April 2017)