| Show the ne poor indian down in the neighborhood of pocatello idaho the fort ila hall indians tire ere showing how primitive and pagan our aborigines can be even after the united states government has done its best he st to civilize and educate them they are holding a three day sun dance with only short abort rest periods and with nothing much to eat and drink these benighted savages ore are posturing and n nd gyrating for or the glory of their tribe all 1 this t tabes k es place in the sagebrush a and n d the e I 1 indians we blush to say wear hardly any an clothes now let us moralize a bit it these poor indians were civilized whites in a large american city alint would they do probably they would be very tip lip to note date and enter a marathon dancing contest in a hall they would dance continuously with only brier brief res rest t periods and with kith nothing roach much to cat or drink only of course being civilized they would not stop nt at the end ot of three days they would gryto malic make it three weeks and thereby set a record and get a weeks engagement in to cheap vaudeville house boum while doln doina this for a cut of the gate receipts they would we blush to say went wear hardly any clothes no wonder they keep indians on reservations they are really pagans at heart Spokane wash spokes man review |
