Link Wray
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Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr. was an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s. His 1958 instrumental single "Rumble" reached the top 20 in the United States, an
Wray performing in July 2005
Link Wray's grave
Shawnee
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The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language.
Link Wray
…2023. Wray was born on May 2, 1929, in Dunn, North Carolina, to Fred Lincoln Wray Sr. and Lillian Mae (née Coats), whom her son identified as being of Shawnee descent. Wray recalled living in very harsh conditions during childhood, in mud huts, without electricity or heating, going to school barefoot, barely…
The Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa (1775–1836), c. 1820, portrait by Charles Bird King
A collage of Shawnee people
Fort Ancient Monongahela cultures
Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio