[BroJoeK]

If you go looking for Indian war whoops, you'll find all kinds, some quite distinctive of southwestern Indians:

Southwest Indian battle cry

But others -- these Eastern Cherokee NC Indian whoops sound a lot like the old rebel yells:

Cherokee NC war whoops

And naturally, somebody wrote a song about it...

Indian War Whoop, from Oh Brother Where Art Thou

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well I grew up with the rebel yell. I had a girlfriend in college who could do a great rebel yell but only when she was 3 sheets to the wind and only when we were driving past cops. Fortunately they always laughed and waved since we were young and smoking hot or at least we thought so. LOL!