1999 IUP Marching Band - Cherokee

IUP's football fight song! re-arranged from Charlie Barnet's famous jazz tune. In Charles Casavant's penultimate season.

[@gavinvirag3483]

Bring it Back!!!!! One of the best and most original fight songs!!! Sincerely, a 2013 IUP Grad.

[@Burnerbro28]

I live in brookville pa and we use this as are high school band song and my sister went to IUP

[@keet711]

That was the best fight song for the Big Indians. Sorry the Crimson Hawks just don't cut it. A 1970 graduate.

[@nailitdown219]

I had family that were part of the cherokee tribe down in Florida, I wish these guys still used the fight song, keep the song, change the name where people don't hate it

[@trishazeigler92]

Now this is the fight song I remember from the 90's!!

[@nathansandolfini2275]

As a member of the IHS Marching Band (the local marching band in Indiana, PA. I'm very proud that this is our school fight song!

[@Linkzzz001]

Mostly all high schools 😂

[@drift689]

Makes me miss IUPMB...

[@lemtheworm3735]

I wish my school played it this epic. We just do the first few notes very fast.

[@vvi95a]

L

[@asianjim8343]

My school plays this way different

[@keepsake327]

Shiz it’s an arrangement based on the big band jazz song by Charlie Barnet

[@herbthenarwhal]

same

[@terrybeasley9335]

@@keepsake327 +

[@ashtonnave8967]

same

[@sparky202]

This was originally marked trees song but the artist who wrote in in marked tree left to jonesboro to teach the wolves to play it!

[@DroneThrust]

I like this song.

[@jmed412]

Miss Saturday afternoons running through the I!

[@chadicusiii7583]

brookville raiders play it

[@yourthighness273]

Just found out that when my parents attended IUP, they were the Indians. I had no idea until a little while ago that they've been the Crimson Hawks for like 9 years. This is better than the Crimson Xpress or whatever it is.

[@kathy4836]

TheGodlyBuddha Clevenger I still get chills when I hear Cherokee.

[@tucky12300]

Our Florida high school was the Indians. This was our fight song too!

[@marcusjackson8100]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE ALCORN STATE FIGHT SONG

[@deebristow4318]

Marcus Jackson - Alcon Is still the Braves !!! 2017

[@darthvader9969]

IUP plays it the right way...

[@tanned2go22]

A somewhat different version was regularly played by Hall High School (Little Rock AR) Warrior Marching Band back in the 1960s and early 1970s. At that simpler time, it was still politically acceptable to have a highly regarded drill team named the Cherokees.

[@kcar26]

that’s crazy, west nassau hs (callahan FL) is also the Warrior Marching Band! We take a lot from FSU (mascot(iffy) colors, our former uniforms, war chant, Seminole uprising, etc.) We use a Cherokee as our fight song that’s designed for us! It starts with Chords, the first quarter of this song, and chords at the end.

[@nickivey80]

The old Arkansas State Indians used this chant quite a few times back in the day

[@paulceria9389]

I live my IUP. The sorry approach to PC ruined it for all. Proud Big Indian graduate!

[@Applestore125]

We play this on Pep Rally and on Football games

[@Gr8Davidicus7707]

Booneville High School in Arkansas uses this as their “fight song”. It’s a very different arrangement though.

[@ThatNorthCarolinaGirl]

Yep I graduated from booneville

[@plantainbruh]

we play it for nettleton

[@nailitdown219]

As of 2022, they changed their fight song to Hail Indiana, they finally listened and took away that stupid "Crimson Xpress"

[@goldenace8678]

My school plays a little different

[@lugnuggetgoldman3753]

This is our fight song and is there anyway I can get the music for it

[@bradleythomas7678]

PNG

[@TeddyFreddy94]

I’m looking for the ‘98-‘02 IUP Marching Band CDs. I’ll pay! Or could you share with me via google drive or make copies or a thumb drive? Please! Thank you. ‘02 alumni

[@drift689]

Are you still looking? I know I have most of these on computer if not all.

[@TeddyFreddy94]

@@drift689 I was able to contact the alumni Facebook page and they hooked me up. I love hearing the band. Takes me back to my college days. Thank you though!

[@kathy4836]

I have my degree from IUP. Haven't been to anything IUP-related since they changed from IUP Big Indians to Crimson Hawks. Haven't heard "Crimson Express", but nothing measures up to "Cherokee". Do you mean to tell me that they have dropped it altogether??? For God's sake - political correctness is killing this country!

[@crimsonindian]

both degrees from IUP, played football there and bleed crimson and grey so i couldnt put it any better. will not buy anything that says Crimson Hawks or that has that stupid logo. it will always be IUP INDIANS and PC is killing this country

[@keepsake327]

Crimsonindian In my time at IUP was before the crimson hawks and after the Indians, even though it was still unofficial. (98-03) Uh. And campus has completely changed, so...pfft. I'll remember it fondly from my non-digital tangible photographs.

[@yourthighness273]

kathy4836 In 2001 they changed it from Indians to the Bears, but kept the mascot named Cherokee so they could still play it, but the NCAA said they would have to change it so in 2007 they became the Crimson Hawks and now here we are.

[@crimsonindian]

TheGodlyBuddha Clevenger they were never the IUP Bears, the stupid mascot was a bear but never changed the name from the Indians until they went to the Crimson Hawks in 2007.

[@darthvader9969]

The local HS plays this as their fight song.

[@MichaelD343]

Bring it back!!!! Crimson Express is not a fight song!

[@ConceptofKobi]

the same thing they did with iup mascot is the same they did via to stanfords mascot

[@colorguard2929]

My school in Lehighton did this let go India

[@RwOverwatch]

Are they the Indians or something?

[@keepsake327]

+JaySeeKay Used to be, long ago, before the PC Indian name thing became a thing. When I attended, this song was still played (as it had for decades) in the IUP Marching Band, but the Indian mascot had been officially dropped. So we were technically without a mascot for a number of years. Then we had a sideline mascot of a black Bear, named Cherokee. Then at some point after I graduated in 2003, they officially changed IUP's mascot to "Crimson Hawks".

[@michellerene3622]

I'll always be an IUP Indian

[@JenniferSteil28]

PNG’s is better

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

Pitt is a better school

[@nailitdown219]

This is a whole nother NCAA division.

[@ControversialQuotes]

This song is amazing , but has racist overtones.