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ONE OLD INDIAN, TWO OLD SQUAWS. American, Piece. The tune was in the repertory of Bill Graves (1917-2001), a fiddler and mountain dulcimer player from Conway, near Lebanon, in the Missouri Ozarks. He introduces it on his recording: "One old Indian, two old squaws, all shaggin' out for Arkansas." Graves was proud of his own Cherokee heritage. His grandfather, John Mawhee, was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian who served as a scout in the Union Army during the Civil War in southwestern Missouri. He also played the fiddle and dulcimer, and constructed lap dulcimers. According to Howard Marshall (Play Me Something Quick and Devilish (2013, p. 229), Mawhee injured his leg in the fighting and was imperfectly set, resulting in one leg being shorter than the other which caused the musician to limp. He added a cane handle to the end of the instrument, which then served double duty as a source of music and an aid to walking; Mawhee called it his "Indian walking cane." There is a photograph of him playing the fiddle in Marshall's book.

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Recorded sources: Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association 301-CD, Bill Graves - "Sugar in the Coffee" (1997). Rounder 0436, Bill Graves - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 2: On the Springfield Plain" (2000).

See also listing at:
Hear Bill Graves recording on youtube.com [1]

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-'''ONE OLD INDIAN, TWO OLD SQUAWS.''' American, Piece. The tune was in the repertory of Bill Graves (1917-2001), a fiddler and mountain dulcimer player from Conway, near Lebanon, in the Missouri Ozarks. He introduces it on his recording: "One old Indian, two old squaws, all shaggin' out for Arkansas."
+'''ONE OLD INDIAN, TWO OLD SQUAWS.''' American, Piece. The tune was in the repertory of Bill Graves (1917-2001), a fiddler and mountain dulcimer player from Conway, near Lebanon, in the Missouri Ozarks. He introduces it on his recording: "One old Indian, two old squaws, all shaggin' out for Arkansas." Graves was proud of his own Cherokee heritage.  His grandfather, John Mawhee, was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian who served as a scout in the Union Army during the Civil War in southwestern Missouri. He also played the fiddle and dulcimer, and constructed lap dulcimers. According to Howard Marshall ('''Play Me Something Quick and Devilish''' (2013, p. 229), Mawhee injured his leg in the fighting and was imperfectly set, resulting in one leg being shorter than the other which caused the musician to limp. He added a cane handle to the end of the instrument, which then served double duty as a source of music and an aid to walking; Mawhee called it his "Indian walking cane." There is a photograph of him playing the fiddle in Marshall's book.
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