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?

Anthrax - Indians



I even have the shirt, seems like an obvious choice, but metal is dead and gone

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills

Don't think I've ever heard that one. I'll have to download it.

meow85 said:

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)

Heavy Metal is really the only genre that's dealt with the explotation of Native Peoples

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.

lilgish said:

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.
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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

meow85 said:

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.

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:

meow85 said:

sorry to hear

Showdown at Big Sky - Robbie Robertson

The Navajo Know - Pixies

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"

Rage Against The Machine deals with oppression and murder of indigenous peoples in a lot of their music.

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.

Cree Summer - Naheo

I haven't heard of some of these. Thanks, guys.
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Stax said:

good one, weak song though, but Trompe le Monde was their weakest.

lilgish said:

Thank you.

Cherokee River by Rita Coolidge, Walela

lilgish said:

i agree

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!

pulpfictionfan said:

"American Ghost Dance" is another.


Don't forget about Jamiroquai's tune, "Just Another Story"


And pretty much anything by Adam & The Ants.

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