Squaws Along the Yukon

In 2015, Bear Family Records included the song on an album titled "Politically Incorrect", consisting of songs considered inappropriate by modern standards.^[4]

When the song was played in 2016 on the satellite radio channel Willie's Roadhouse, a listener complained about the song's "misogynist and racial slurs." Sirius XM apologized for any offense caused by the "outdated and insensitive" references but defended the decision to play the song. The listener was not satisfied with the response and pursued a claim to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. The complaint resulted in a 2018 ruling that the Sirius XM breached Canadian broadcast standards by playing a song with discriminatory, degrading and derogatory references to Indigenous women. The panel noted:

In addition to the prominent use of the word “squaw”, references to a “salmon colored girl” and making underwear from the hides of grizzly bears, the nonsense language “Ooga ooga mooshka”, the line “The squaws along the Yukon are good enough for me”, and the paternalistic tone expressed throughout as exemplified by the line “Then I take her hand in mine and set her on my knee” combine to render the song all the more problematic. Taken together, the noted elements of the song demean and belittle Indigenous women.^[1]

• Billboard year-end top 50 country & western singles of 1958