There are, however, multiple interpretative routes for entering the sound of Indian when encountering it in Cash's Bitter Tears cover of LaFarge's "Drums." Whereas the Indian in the hills "has gone berserk" in "Kaintuck," most of the Indians in "Drums" are, Cash sings, "beyond the mountains," on their allotments, reservations, and other lands in Indian Country. "Drums" is a first person Indian student's account of "survivance," or Gerald Vizenor's merged keyword for survival and resistance, from the U.S. government assimilation, or cultural genocide, policy of sending Natives to Anglo-run boarding schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to immerse them in "the sounds of 'civilization.'"