Cherokees/Blacks/Hank Williams, etc.

[Robert Norton]

But you don't remember correctly. Kawlija was no princess and Charley Pride
is no Hank Williams, who wrote and recorded the definitive version.

Cherokees and Blacks mixed themselves up. Lots of runaway slaves became
adopted members of the Cherokee Nation, particularly when the Cherokees
were in Louisiana after the first expulsions from Georgia and before the
Trail of Tears pogrom.

>Then again you could really mix up this Cherokee/blacks business by
>recalling a song that was a massive hit for black country & western
artist,
>Charley Pride, "Kawlija" (sp? I'm remembering it phonetically, as I heard
>it booming from my AM car radio some years ago), where the crooner
adresses
>a cigar-store Indian princess, if I remember correctly.