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A well-known story told by Loudermilk is that when he was asked by the Viva!NashVegas radio show about the origins of the song "Indian Reservation," he fabricated the story that he wrote the song after his car was snowed in by a blizzard and he was taken in by a small group of Cherokee Indians. [7]
The lyrics of the song first appeared in 5 stanzas in Bengali magazine in an issue of Tatwabodhini Patrika. The melody of the song, in raga Alhaiya Bilaval, was composed as a Brahmo Hymn by Tagore himself with possibly some help from his musician grand-nephew Dinendranath Tagore. The final form of the song before the first public performance ...
The root of the Sanskrit word Vande is Vand, which appears in Rigveda and other Vedic texts. [27] [note 1] According to Monier Monier-Williams, depending on the context, vand means "to praise, celebrate, laud, extol, to show honour, do homage, salute respectfully", or "deferentially, venerate, worship, adore", or "to offer anything respectfully to".
Vande Mataram, the national song of India; List of regional anthems; List of Indian state symbols; List of Indian state flags; List of Indian state emblems; List of Indian state mottos; List of Indian state foundation days; List of Indian state animals; List of Indian state birds; List of Indian state flowers; List of Indian state trees
The narrator describes himself as a rebellious American Indian character, "Half Cherokee and Choctaw". He describes, among other things, his pursuit of a Chippewa lover. The song contains a sample of John D. Loudermilk's song "Indian Reservation", [1] which is sung as shouting at the end ("Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe! / So proud to live, so ...
Jack Guthrie, Woody's cousin, changed the lyrics and music slightly and in 1945 recorded a Western swing version, which reached Number 1 on the Juke Box Folk Records charts. [1] It remains the best-known version of "Oklahoma Hills", and was the biggest hit of Jack Guthrie's fairly short life.
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Flag of the American Indian Movement. The "AIM Song" is the name given to a Native American intertribal song. Although the song originally did not have a name, it gained its current alias through association with the American Indian Movement. During the takeover of Wounded Knee, it was used as the anthem of the "Independent Oglala Nation."