In 1971, the Raiders recorded "Indian Reservation" for Columbia Records, and it topped the Hot 100 on July 24. [5] On June 30, 1971, the RIAA gold certified the record for selling over a million copies. [6] The record was later certified platinum for selling an additional million copies. [6] The song was the group's only Hot 100 Number 1 hit and their final Hot 100 Top 20 song. His biggest success was his cover version of " Indian Reservation" by John D. Loudermilk (1968, Billboard Hot 100: number 20; 1970, UK: number 3; [3] Australia: number 4). [4] The global sales were estimated at over one million copies. [5] Ninety-five years later on April 4th, 1971 the Raiders' "Indian Reservation" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #94; fifteen weeks later on July 18th, 1971 it peaked at #1... Vowel, Chelsea (2016). "Just Don't Call Us Late for Supper – Names for Indigenous Peoples". Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Highwater Press. p.7. ISBN 978-1553796800. Let's just agree the following words are never okay to call Indigenous peoples: savage, red Indian, redskin, primitive, half-breed, squaw/brave/papoose. Earl Kliethermes from Jefferson City, MissouriI can't believe someone repeated the myth that Mark Lindsay is not the lead singer. It is quite obviously Mark Lindsay.

DON FARDON full Official Chart History Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved October 10, 2015. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 4th 1971, "Indian Reservation" by the Raiders entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 at position #94; fifteen weeks later on July 18th, 1971 it peaked at #1 {for 1 week} and spent 22 weeks on the Top 100... Barry from Sauquoit, NyJohn D. Loudermilk had four records that made the Top 100; his most successful was "Language of Love", it peaked at #32 in 1961. As Johnny Dee he charted with "Sittin' In the Balcony", it reached #38 in 1957... We were more the American Stones than the American Beatles...": An Interview With Paul Revere and the Raiders' Mark Lindsay". Stereo Embers Magazine. February 6, 2010 . Retrieved May 4, 2021. a b c d e Whitburn, Joel (1997). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1996. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc. p.509. ISBN 0-89820-122-5.Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p.420. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2. a b c "Did the Cherokee live in tipis?". Museum of the Cherokee Indian – FAQ. Archived from the original on December 19, 2015 . Retrieved August 3, 2018. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Find sources: "Indian Reservation"The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Belfast Boy" is a song by the British singer Don Fardon. Released as a single in March 1970 it spent five weeks in the UK Singles Charts, peaking at number 32. It is a tribute to the Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer George Best, then at the height of his career. [1] It was featured in a BBC documentary of the same year The World of Georgie Best. Indigenous electronic music group the Halluci Nation has sampled the song on several occasions. [31]

Brodsky, Greg (March 13, 2021). "Mark Lindsay, Hal Blaine, and the Raiders' #1 Hit, 'Indian Reservation' ". Best Classic Bands . Retrieved May 5, 2021.The music is in a minor key, with sustained minor chords ending each phrase in the primary melody, while the melody line goes through a slow musical turn (turning of related notes) which ends each phrase, and emphasizes the ominous minor chords. Underneath the slow, paced melody, is a rhythmic, low "drum beat" in double-time, constantly, relentlessly pushing to follow along, but the melody continues its slow, deliberate pace above the drum beat. 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] A self-professed prankster, [8] he spun the tale that a Cherokee chieftain, "Bloody Bear Tooth," asked him to make a song about his people's plight on the Trail of Tears, even going so far as to claim that he had later been awarded "the first medal of the Cherokee Nation," not for writing the song, but for his "blood." [7] He went on to fabricate the detail that on that day the tribe revealed that his "great-great-grandparents, Homer and Matilda Loudermilk" were listed on the Dawes Rolls (the citizenship rolls of the Nation). [7] Had this detail of his tall tale been true, he would have been a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, which he was not. [7]