What Made the Red Man Red is a song from Disney Peter Pan, sung by Indian Chief and the Indian chorus.

Lyrics

Why does he ask you, "How?"

Why does he ask you, "How?"

Once the Injun didn't know

All the things that he know now

But the Injun, he sure learn a lot

And it's all from asking, "How?"

Hana Mana Ganda Hana Mana Ganda

We translate for you Hana means what mana means

And ganda means that too

When did he first say, "Ugh!" When did he first say,

"Ugh!" In the Injun book it say

When the first brave married squaw He gave out with a big ugh

When he saw his Mother-in-Law

What made the red man red?

What made the red man red? Let's go back a million years

To the very first Injun prince He kissed a maid and start to blush

And we've all been blushin' since

You've got it from the headman

The real true story of the red man

No matter what's been written or said

Now you know why the red man's red!

Trivia

• Surprisingly, this was not the only song that had stereotypical/racist views of Native Americans. The other one was Savages from Pocahontas, though that was more racist.

Peter Pan

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