Give Her A Feather, She's A Cherokee

Mary Dean wrote the lyrics to Halfbreed, a story of the girl with a Cherokee mother and a white father, specifically for Cher.

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Though Cher's mother was only 1/16 Cherokee, her father was Armenian, which helps to account for her dark features and common misconception that she is half Cherokee, as is the girl in the song.

There are quite a number of celebrities who are reported to have Cherokee blood. Among them, Ava Gardner, Burt Reynolds, Val Kilmer, Tina Turner, Loretta Lynn, James Earl Jones and Elvis Presley.

Presley, who himself was 1/16 Cherokee from his mother's side, also played the part of a mixed-blood Indian in what is considered to be one of his better movies, "Flaming Star" (1960).

Halfbreed reached the number one position on the Billboard charts in October, 1973.