ABSTRACT
The global community has given up on the Red Indian his/her is a dying man. Speaker Two Coyote the Winnetou stories and the Karl May Festival locate whiteness and Indian-ness in the center of the white German male's imagination. Speaker Two Narrator in Winnetou, Old Shatterhand finds a spiritual center for his German self, a longing to be one with the noble Red Indian who populated America before the European conquerors, colonists, and settlers arrived. Speaker One Narrator its summer time and the hills of Central Europe are alive with the sound of cowboys and Indians. Speaker One Karl May and Buffalo Bill today the author honor the Red Indians and one hundred years of Wild West shows in Germany. Speaker One Ghost of Sitting Bull and Lakota Ghost Dancers Speak for yourselves. The author has to agree with our dear friend and Indian activist Ward Churchill. Becoming an Indian is a peculiarly European, but especially German phenomenon.
