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Cherokee Amazing Grace

@User:CorbieVreccan, @User:TulsaPoliticsFan, @User:Yuchitown Walela has a "Cherokee" version of Amazing Grace on their self-titled 1997 album. Snippets of the lyrics feature on the song "Undertaker" from CocoRosie's Grey Oceans. I have seen a number of claims online that this is a "traditional" Cherokee folk song and that it was sung on the Trail of Tears. I assume this is all New Age Pretendian pseudo-history, but I was wondering if anyone had sources about this song and its origins. Thank you. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 01:27, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's just the European Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" with Cherokee lyrics. Here's a proper mention of that. And Mvskoke people sing it too. Yuchitown (talk) 02:48, 13 July 2023 (UTC)Yuchitown[reply]

Source

@Morbidthoughts The essay you removed as "self-published" is featured in "Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment" published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 18:42, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The entire essay or does the book just cite to it? What is the corresponding text because the book preview does not show it? Morbidthoughts (talk) 01:50, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]