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mainstream songs with Native American themes How many songs are out there? It doesn't seem like many. Here's what I could think of:
"Indian Reservation" -Paul Revere & the Raiders "Halfbreed" -Cher "Christians Murdered Indians" -Corporate Avenger "I'm a Lucky One" -Tru Rez Crew "Blue Wing" -Tom Russell "This Land Was Ours" -War Party Anyone else? "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Don't think I've ever heard that one. I'll have to download it. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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meow85 said: Don't think I've ever heard that one. I'll have to download it.
White man came across the sea He brought us pain and misery He killed our tribes, he killed our creed He took our game for his own need We fought him hard we fought him well Out on the plains we gave him hell But many came too much for cree Oh will we ever be set free? Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes Galloping hard on the plains Chasing the redskins back to their holes Fighting them at their own game Murder for freedom a stab in the back Women and children and cowards attack Run to the hills run for your lives Run to the hills run for your lives Soldier blue on the barren wastes Hunting and killing their game Raping the women and wasting the men The only good indians are tame Selling them whisky and taking their gold Enslaving the young and destroying the old Run to the hills run for your lives (repeat to end) | |
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Heavy Metal is really the only genre that's dealt with the explotation of Native Peoples | |
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Christians Murdered Indians -Corporate Avenger
(spoken intro)Even in the initial stages of contact between European Christians and Native Indian people the stage was set for ethnocentrism, and the attitude towards the Indians was that of Christian superiority. The Indians were read a proclamation in Spanish which they had no hope of understanding, they had no hope of understanding the death sentence they were being read, and it went something like this: "We ask and require you to acknowledge the church as the ruler and superior of the whole world and the high priest called pope and in his name the king of Spain as lords of this land. If you submit we shall receive you in all love and charity and shall leave you, your wives and children and your lands free without servitude, but if you do not submit we shall powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against you, we shall take you and your wives and your children and shall make slaves of them and we shall take away your goods and shall do you all the harm and damage we can." 2000 years ago we were all tribal. Then came the missionaries with their fucking bible. 1492 began the termination The holocaust of our Indian nations Yeah, with Christian love and a moral authority They killed our medicine men and stole our country I never claimed this shit was poetry It's just the fucking lies of Christianity You will pray to the lord and get down on your knees Here's a cross for your back and the coughing disease Though you helped us survive we will laugh while you bleed Then deny what we did, write our own history We will kidnap your children and cut off their hair Silence their language and outlaw their prayers Beat them blind until they believe In the blood of Jesus Christ our king Christians murdered Indians Columbus murdered children and now we have a holiday Still you want to deny your history Look to the sky for your god to justify As you commit cultural genocide Christians came and the natives they did hang 13 at a time for Jesus and his gang We are the ones you had to dehumanize So your murder and greed could be justified The belly of the church is full With the blood of all those heathen fools Who would not receive the gift of Christ? So we burned them as a sacrifice To our baby killing god above To our mother church and all her love We will steal their gods and subjugate Those who don't believe we'll ahnilate "The Spaniards made bets as to who would slit a man in two or cut of his head with one blow. They tore babies from their mother's breast by their feet and dashed their head against the rocks. They hanged Indians by thirteen in honor and reverence for their redeemer and their twelve apostles. They put wood underneath and with fire burned the Indians alive." Christians murdered Indians We believe in the earth, the sky and dreams The universe and the creator who gave us these The sacred gift of life and human beings That makes you perpetrate the hate to ahnilate So here I am the savage civilized Voice of the dead and my ancestor's cries And like the ghosts of this land you can't erase I see blood on the hands of the master race. 500 years of manifest destiny 500 years of resistance to the enemy You have faith in the rivers, the mountains, the trees We've a murdering god to replace all of these With the blood of forgiveness you too can be free Or the wrath of Jehovah you're sure to receive We will baptize you with the blood of the lamb With the sword and the gospel we will conquer your land You will join our church and be glad to be saved Or we'll slaughter your children and your women we'll rape. Christians murdered Indians I see blood on the hands of the master race. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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lilgish said: Heavy Metal is really the only genre that's dealt with the explotation of Native Peoples
Really? If so, that's interesting. Especially considering that (in Canada, at least) heavy metal isn't a genre that's very popular among Natives. Country and rap are huge though. An excellent Native Canadian rap group worth checking out is War Party. www.warparty.ca Might interest some of you to know that Chuck D. is featured on their new album. [Edited 1/11/06 6:12am] "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Rob Halford - Trail Of Tears
Such desperation Left you in shame This bitter harvest Bearing all the blame Man will never end your suffering Stealing all your years God is with you but won't save you From your Trail of Tears From this oblivion Seek dignity Just human cargo Crying to be free Man will never end your suffering Stealing all your years God is with you but won't save you Change it Gonna change it - change it Greed of man has pushed you over Feeding on the fears Poverty will always prosper On your Trail of Tears Man will never end your suffering Stealing all your years God is with you but won't save you From your Trail of Tears | |
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meow85 said: lilgish said: Heavy Metal is really the only genre that's dealt with the explotation of Native Peoples
Really? If so, that's interesting. Especially considering that (in Canada, at least) heavy metal isn't a genre that's very popular among Natives. Country and rap are huge though. An excellent Native Canadian rap group worth checking out is War Party. www.warparty.ca I was just kidding I do know of War Party, I worked at an Native American Craft Shop and I handled buying the music. I made sure to get that and Redbone. | |
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This one was one of my dad's favourites. We played it at his funeral.
Blue Wing -Tom Russell He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder Well it might have been a blue bird I don't know But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska The salmon boats and 45 below He said he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla And his cellmate there was Little Willy John And Willy he was once a great blues singer And winging Willy wrote him up a song. He said… CHORUS: It's dark in here; can't see the sky But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes And I fly away beyond these walls Up above the clouds where there ain't no fault On a poor man's dreams. They paroled Blue Wing in August, of 1963 He moved North picking apples to the town of Wenatchee Then winter finally caught him in a run down trailer park On the South side of Seattle where the days grow gray and dark And he drank and he dreamt a vision when the salmon still ran free And his fathers, fathers crossed that wild old Bering Sea And the land belonged to everyone and there were old songs yet to sing Now it's narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing CHORUS: Well he drank his way to LA; And that's where he died And no one knew his Christian name and there was no one there to cry But I dreamt there was a funeral; A preacher and a cheap pine box And half way through the service, Blue wing began to talk. He said… CHORUS: "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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meow85 said: This one was one of my dad's favourites. We played it at his funeral.
Blue Wing -Tom Russell sorry to hear | |
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Showdown at Big Sky - Robbie Robertson
The Navajo Know - Pixies a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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Europe--"Cherokee"
Red Hot Chilli Pepper's had a few that had Native American contexts, one that comes to mind is "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky" | |
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Rage Against The Machine deals with oppression and murder of indigenous peoples in a lot of their music. The Normal Whores Club | |
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Tori Amos-Tombigbee. It's one of my favorite songs by Tori. check it out
To you it's another day to me it's a grim reaping just another shooting star strung out on your wire prick my finger on his virgin silver he took me raw, Ginger - it carmelized me Tombigbee, Tombigbee help me hang these bones gotta hang these bones out to dry he loved me, he loved me, ravishingly, low gonna hang these bones out to dry dry, dry, dry oh, you do it, man Got a blackberry stain and they're not even in season if you're not yet a woman you got no business playing at this Tombigbee, Tombigbee help me hang these bones gotta hang these bones out to dry he loved me, he loved me, ravishingly, low gonna hang these bones out to dry dry, dry, dry oh, you do it, man so you get done then you get some sure enough, it won't hold you for long then you say "right. this is all mine" but hasn't your donor card expired from Blueridge to Cattail on the prairie from fly over country back through Mississippi I said go, man you go well you raise me twenty I'm raising you five hundred treaties signed by your father's lies just go man, you go cause I'm trailing her tears the ones you won't hold you roll me a carpet roll me a carpet, boy roll me a carpet from here to Oklahoma Tombigbee, Tombigbee help me hang this bone gotta hang these bones out to dry he loved me, he loved me, ravishingly, low gonna hang these bones out to dry to dry, dry, dry I'll do again dry, dry, dry Tori Amos-Wampum Prayer In our hand an old old old thread Trail of Blood and Amens Greed is the gift for the sons of the songs Hear this prayer of the wampum This is the tie that will bind us Wampum Prayer isn't really a song....just a short acapella. Tori has Cherokee blood, so some of the songs from Scarlet's Walk have a Native American feel to them. I would check out the whole album. looking for you in the woods tonight Switch FC SW-2874-2863-4789 (Rum&Coke) | |
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Cree Summer - Naheo | |
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I haven't heard of some of these. Thanks, guys. [Edited 1/11/06 20:43pm] "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Stax said: The Navajo Know - Pixies good one, weak song though, but Trompe le Monde was their weakest. | |
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lilgish said: meow85 said: This one was one of my dad's favourites. We played it at his funeral.
Blue Wing -Tom Russell sorry to hear Thank you. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Cherokee River by Rita Coolidge, Walela "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"-Dr Seuss
Pain is something to carry, like a radio...You should stand up for your right to feel your pain- Jim Morrison | |
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lilgish said: Stax said: The Navajo Know - Pixies good one, weak song though, but Trompe le Monde was their weakest. i agree a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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Blackalicous has a song on their latest album titled "Ego Sonic War Drums" where they incorporate that famous Indian tribal beat and also a bit of the chant. i think it's wicked! | |
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pulpfictionfan said: Europe--"Cherokee"
Red Hot Chilli Pepper's had a few that had Native American contexts, one that comes to mind is "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky" "American Ghost Dance" is another. Don't forget about Jamiroquai's tune, "Just Another Story" And pretty much anything by Adam & The Ants. NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. | |
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Buffy Saint-Marie...
...was considered mainstream back in the day. Now That the Buffalo's Gone My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying tA Tribal Disorder http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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