I'm An Indian Too

"I'm an Indian Too" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin. It was originally performed by Ethel Merman. It is sung by the main character Annie after Sitting Bull adopts her into the Sioux tribe.

It is typical of mid-20th century views of Native Americans, and is sometimes considered racist and demeaning from a contemporary perspective, although others see it as a mildly satirical attack on racial stereoyping. Native Americans did protest outside the New York theatre, as well as movie theaters, holding picket signs stating: "Don't See "Annie Get Your Gun". As a result of this reaction, many contemporary productions have omitted the song from their revivals, and the protests stopped.

In 1979, the song was remixed and released as a dance track by disco artist Don Armando.

Other singers to have recorded the song include Judy Garland.

Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields'
Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
Characters
  • Annie Oakley
  • Frank Butler
  • Foster Wilson
  • Chief Sitting Bull
  • Tommy Keeler
  • Charlie Davenport
  • Winnie Tate
  • Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
  • Dolly Tate
  • Pawnee Bill
Adaptations
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1950 film)
  • Annie du Far-West (1950 French operetta)
Recordings
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1963)
  • Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast (1986)
Music
  • "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
  • "The Girl That I Marry"
  • "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"
  • "There's No Business Like Show Business"
  • "They Say It's Wonderful"
  • "Moonshine Lullaby"
  • "My Defenses Are Down"
  • "I'm an Indian, Too"
  • "I Got Lost In His Arms"
  • "Who Do You Love, I Hope?"
  • "I Got the Sun in the Morning"
  • "Anything You Can Do"
Related
  • Songs (fuller list)
Irving Berlin songs
  • "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
  • "All Alone"
  • "All by Myself"
  • "Always"
  • "Any Bonds Today?"
  • "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)"
  • "The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)"
  • "Blue Skies"
  • "Change Partners"
  • "Cheek to Cheek"
  • "Count Your Blessings"
  • "Daddy, Come Home"
  • "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
  • "Easter Parade"
  • "Follow the Crowd"
  • "Get Thee Behind Me Satan"
  • "The Girl That I Marry"
  • "God Bless America"
  • "Happy Holiday"
  • "Heat Wave"
  • "Heaven Watch the Philippines"
  • "How About Me?"
  • "How Deep Is the Ocean?"
  • "How's Chances?"
  • "I Got Lost in His Arms"
  • "I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)"
  • "I Used to Be Color Blind"
  • "I Want To Go Back To Michigan"
  • "I'm an Indian Too"
  • "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket"
  • "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now"
  • "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
  • "Isn't This a Lovely Day?"
  • "It's a Lovely Day Today"
  • "Lazy"
  • "Let Yourself Go"
  • "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
  • "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee"
  • "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk"
  • "Mandy"
  • "Moonshine Lullaby"
  • "My Defenses Are Down"
  • "The Near Future"
  • "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)"
  • "Now It Can Be Told"
  • "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"
  • "Play a Simple Melody"
  • "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody"
  • "Puttin' on the Ritz"
  • "Reaching for the Moon"
  • "Remember"
  • "San Francisco Bound"
  • "Say It Isn't So"
  • "Sisters"
  • "Slumming on Park Avenue"
  • "The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)"
  • "Stay Down Here Where You Belong"
  • "Steppin' Out with My Baby"
  • "Supper Time"
  • "That International Rag"
  • "That Mysterious Rag"
  • "There's No Business Like Show Business"
  • "They Say It's Wonderful"
  • "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"
  • "What'll I Do"
  • "When I Lost You"
  • "White Christmas"
  • "Who Do You Love, I Hope?"
  • "You Can Have Him"
  • "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"
  • "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"
  • "You'd Be Surprised"
  • "You're Just in Love"
  • "You're Laughing at Me"


Famous quotes containing the word indian:

    “Though I had not come a-hunting, and felt some compunctions about accompanying the hunters, I wished to see a moose near at hand, and was not sorry to learn how the Indian managed to kill one. I went as reporter or chaplain to the hunters,—and the chaplain has been known to carry a gun himself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)