On this date six decades ago, "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" was released by Johnny Cash as a single. This timeless song narrates the journey of Ira Hayes, an indigenous American who served as a Marine, in a heartfelt ode to an important aspect of the Native American experience 🌟 Listen: https://johnnycash.lnk.to/BitterTearsohnn | Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash stood with Indigenous people when it cost him his career and the record proves it. In 1964, Cash released Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, a protest album confronting genocide, broken treaties, land theft, and erasure of Black-Indigenous people. This wasn’t metaphor. Songs like “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” and “Custer” directly condemned U.S. military violence and treaty violations. Radio stations blacklisted the album for being “too political,” and Cash responded with a pu

Learn about "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes," a song about a Native American marine at Iwo Jima that Cash dared radio to play. https://JohnnyCash.lnk.to/BitterTears | Johnny Cash

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