Biography

Buddy Red Bow was born on June 26, 1948 in Red Shirt, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Thunderheart (1992), Hard Rider (1972) and The Sioux Nation (1970). He died on March 28, 1993 in Red Shirt, Montana, USA.

You knew Buddy was around by the sound of his hearty, infectious laugh.

Known for almost always wearing a broad-brimmed "reservation hat" with colorful beaded hatbands

His guitar was his most constant companion.

Was the second musician inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame. He was Lakota Sioux.

Children: Daughter: Tammy (born 1965), Richard Todd (11 November - 10 December 1966), Autumn Rose (7 September - November 1980).

Oglala Lakota Indian from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD. As a toddler, was with his mother at the Pine Ridge Jail. Buddy described memories of using a cigarette box to play "car" on the jail's cell floor. Tribal judge Peter Two Bulls, Sr told his daughter Maisie and her husband, Steve Red Bow about the little boy in jail; they went in to see him, took him to their home along the White River, and raised him as their own. He grew up with the horses that ranged free in that "wide, open space" (Steve's description), learning the equine mojo that served him later when he worked as the technical advisor in numerous Western films; at least once, in Buddy's words, he "tried to teach Japanese extras how to ride like real Indians.".