Harmful Jazz

Harmful Jazz

from the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, January 23, 1921

Jazz music is proving too much
for the American Indian,

says Dr. Henry Beets, secretary of the Christian
Reformed Church Missions.
He declares that the jazz and the shimmy are
driving the redskin back to the war dance.

He suggests that the Interior Department stop
Indian maids and youths dancing modern steps,

in order to save their morals
and bring them back
to the paths of their fathers.


Sherman Alexie..........from The Summer of Black Widows