This was always my favorite song too! Walks In The Spirit > On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Alli :") via" <cherokee@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > That's been my favorite song ever since I was little. > > But it does say a lot > > -----Original Message----- > From: cherokee-bounces@rootsweb. > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Blue Panther via <cherokee@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> From: David Stalvey >> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:05 PM >> To: cherokee@rootsweb.com ; CherokeeChat ; >> CherokeeMAINVillage@yahoogroups.com ; Dan Perry ; >> indigenous_peoples_literature ; littlewolfstraditions@yahoogroups.com >> ; Native_Village ; redroad ; summonthewolf >> Subject: "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Indian)" >> >> "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Indian)" >> >> (As recorded by The Raiders) >> JOHN D. LOUDERMILK >> >> They took the whole Cherokee Nation >> Put us on this reservation >> Took away our ways of life >> The tomahawk and the bow and knife. >> >> Took away our native tongue >> And taught their English to our young >> And all the beads we made by hand >> Are nowadays made in Japan. >> >> Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe >> So proud to live, so proud to die. >> >> They took the whole Indian Nation >> Locked us on this reservation >> Though I wear a shirt or tie >> I'm still part red man deep inside. >> >> Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe >> So proud to live, so proud to die. >> >> But maybe someday when they've learned Cherokee Nation will return >> Will return, will return, will return, will return. >> >> (c) Copyright 1963, 1967, 1971 by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. >> >> ======*====== >> List archives >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message