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12 June 2006
Princess Ramona - The Cherokee Princess→[More:]
Unable to sleep, I began to surf the webs and found this gem. Over at the 365 day project, I found one of her songs. Enjoy!
I once went to this giant annual powwow in Connecticut. It's called Schemitzun, and it's a huge long festival of all things native. Anyway, part of the weekend's entertainment was this native comedian...he had a lot of great political humor, but the thing that will always remain with me is this. Part of his show was a long riff on white people wanting to claim Indian ancestry. So he said to the audience, in the character of an eager white person, "You're Indian? Wow! My grandmother was...."
And the entire audience shouted back in perfect unison "A Cherokee Princess!"