Of course it starts with the fucking BOOMbumbumbum BOOMbumbumbum drums.
Of course Cher’s wearing a war bonnet while singing about the Cherokee. (That was the Plains Indians: the Crow and the Blackfoot and the Arapahoe and others.)
Of course there’s a totem pole. (The Cherokee didn’t make ’em.)
Of course the backup singers are going HAY-ay-ay-uh.
Of course.
beau dick & idle no more. breaking the copper, victoria bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVW7S6DWsHk&index=3&list=PLLRxRE-5N9MpWHSg23b5DPn7irC2gU6zD
These folks have just might have more native in them than Cher
https://youtu.be/U0J6vURwLSc?t=61
The song is pretty catchy.
A good read: https://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Cool-Literature-Escape/dp/0143119621/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539648492&sr=8-1&keywords=thomas+chatterton+williams
Then there’s this:
https://youtu.be/iNUT0p0M0Nw
Thoughts on Native Americans?
My mother is a real half breed (by nature, not much by nurture) and kinda sorta looked like Cher when this came out.
So we all thought it was GREAT when we were kids in my family, not being too quick on the pickup about the point of the song. I think my Mom liked it too.
It was almost as good, in fact, as watching “Deputy Dawg” because that was the only cartoon the characters talked like everyone we knew did.
Oh, South Cackalacky!