| As with every other aspect of American
popular culture, the Noble Savage stereotype coexisted
with the Ignoble Savage in early days of recorded American
music. In the songs below, Indianness is negatively
compared with the Euro-American notion of civilization
as it was in the the early Twentieth Century. Most interesting
are two World War One songs, "Indianola,"
and "Big Chief Killahun," which ridicule the
contributions being made to the war effort by Native
Americans. |