(Watch the video below) The song, "Indian Reservation" (The Lament Of The Cherokee) was written by John D. Loudermilk. It was first recorded in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater. The first hit version was in 1968 by Don Fardon, a former member of The Sorrows. In 1971 Paul Revere & the Raiders recorded it and it became #1 on the U.S. charts. The song was later further covered by the Orlando Riva Sound.
In 1838 the U.S. Government did not back up a Supreme Court ruling and consequently the U.S. army in the dead of winter forced the people of the Cherokee nation from their homelands westward to so-called Indian Territory.
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