I’m pretty sure it was from the 60’s. I want to say Paul Revere and the Raiders did it, but I don’t think so…it was on the radio, a pop song, vaguely American Indian in nature. Sort of a drumming monotone and the words?..gah, I’m trying, but all I got is “kitchy ya ya …war a nikko, war a nikko, hey hey…pictures spinning 'round my head…”
Witchi-Tai-To, originally recorded by Jim Pepper both with the band Everything Is Everything and solo on Pepper’s Pow Wow, and later covered by Brewer & Shipley among many others.
Almost sounds like U2’s “With or Without You” stole heavily from this…
I remember the title (or was it Santana’s song? drugs are a bitch, man)…
You aren’t thinking of Indian Reservation?
Color me impressed. The 'kitchy-ya-ya" had me thinking about “Lady Marmalade”.
I’m right there with you. The other one I’ve never heard to know it.
I think the OP is referring to Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian), by the Raiders in 1971. It was later sampled by Tim McGraw in 1994 for his hit Indian Outlaw.
No. If you click on the link provided by Biffy, it’s clearly that song.
Thank you, Biffy! That’s it, Witchi-Tai-To. (The person who asked me to look it up was vague on the lyrics, and I tried, but the mistaken ‘kitchy ya ya’ only brought up Lady Marmalade lyrics.)
Why would you want to remember that song?
Check out this video on YouTube, a one-hit wonder by EverythingIsEverything, one of the few if not only Native American groups to wind up in the Top 40!
I beg you - only listen to this, the “real” version. It is outstanding (“song” starts at 35 sec). I don’t know what that other bizarre version is about 
Everything Is Everything was Jim Pepper’s group so it’s as real as anything can be. hcrise’s link goes to the cleaned-up version for radio play. Most FM stations wound up playing the longer version in KarlGauss’ link with Pepper’s gonzo sax, though, and if you were the right age that’s the version that stays with you.
Not the ONLY Native American group:
Wait through the intro, and you probably know it.