I remember this song from the days when I first arrived to Miami as a wee lad of about seven and a half years old. I think Steve Alaimo was a local talent…
There used to be a programme in the afternoons that we all watched after we got home from school called Where the Action Is produced by Dick Clark and Steve Alaimo was one of the regulars, along with Paul Revere & the Raiders…
I may be wrong but back in the day when «Indian Reservation» was released, I don’t think there were many groups playing protest songs…
This was not a bad band, I think the costumes made them look a bit ridiculous but the music was spot on…
What do you think? Do you remember these songs? This singer? This band?
Cheers…
JaZzArt en València 
Opinionating here: Protest music to the mid 60’s was the mostly domain of folk, country and bluegrass. Protest lyrics hadn’t galloped out of the coffee houses into rock yet. No money and no «cool» in it. Woody Guthrie who probably influenced Dillon, wasn’t «money,» but very quickly after, such as PPM, Seeger, both Guthries, and Dillon among others became popular with the likes of Joplin and artists of the later Woodstock class. With the anti-war, bra-burning, it’s-chic-to-protest attitudes, the genre became more mainstream, challenging bubble-gum, doo-wop, rockabilly, hard and teen rock for market share. «Woke» was there, we just didn’t recognize it. We had difficulty recognizing «protest» for the catchiness of some of it – «Eve of Destruction» and anti-protest like «Green Beret,» and commercially successful soft-protest like «Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town» (Kenny Rogers).
As for the «costumes» it’s show biz. Liberace, Porter Wagoner no different. Like some painters, sculptors, the stranger you can be the more you’ll catch the eye of clowns eager to be perceived hip, cool, and otherwise sophisticated when they go agog over your «work» and fall all over themselves to make you rich.
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That is a very good recount of the progression of protest songs. Thank you Espie, it’s good learning for me and I appreciate it. And you are right, think of Warhol and Dali, the weirder the more press you get. Sometimes they are their own best work of art, (or their worst). In the case of Paul Revere & The Raiders, I think their songs are not bad and they did venture into different genres of music, including «southern rock» but I don’t think they ever outgrew their garage band/teen idol image. Cheers Espie, hope you’ve a lovely weekend. All the best.
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Well into evening -over in Val— wait, no, you’re in Mi-am-mi-am-i! Still time for the sun to set on the bay and you and yours to lift a glass of cheer. Do well, be well. Espie.
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Just about to lift a glass, to your health my friend! Yes, in Miami by the Atlantic Ocean…
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This is «green» eyes the color of jealousy – well, mild envy, anyway.
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I do remember Indian Reservation. Back in early 1960s, we were in Montana and my father bought my sister and me what looked like simple Indian beadwork on a rawhide coin purse. On the back, it said Made in Hong Kong. I would have expected it to be Native American work in rural Montana.
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Imagine that! Even back in those years! Incredible!
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Indeed.
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I thought pr and the raiders had a lot of fun pop songs! nothing too deep –
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Most of them, but they did go through transitions to more serious music…
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I remember quite liking Paul Revere and the Raiders, but I’d forgotten about them until you brought this one to our attention
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I had forgotten too, then this tune came into my head and I began to remember…
Thank you Malc!
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Happy Easter Francesc ✝️
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And a Happy Easter to you and your family Malc!
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Thank you my friend – and for all your support 🙂
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You’re welcome Malc, always a pleasure!
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I remember this song but had not heard it in forever. Sadly, the plight of Native Americans has not changed much in the half-century since it was written and performed. Thanks for the reminder, my friend!
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Thank you my friend, and you are so right about the Indian situation here in the US.
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