Laura Ingalls Wilder's name pulled from library award over 'stereotypical

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I’m afraid my homestead will be attacked by marauding Shawnee 😥
 
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I believe you but disappearing down the memory hole and rewriting history… that’s what Stalinist do.
 
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Well Ingalls is getting the full Stalinist treatment of slipping down the memory hole. In a few years you won’t find her books in the public library or anywhere else.
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Doubtful. First, LHOP is a cottage industry that’s in no danger of going anywhere. Second, there’s no government branch responsible for censoring books.
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I think one can safely predict that public schools will begin removing these beloved books from the shelves of school libraries. It may be done quietly, without fanfare, but it will be censorship.
 
It’s a nice sentiment; however, you’re right. People seldom learn from the past.
 
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This makes me so sad. I tackle Little House on the Prairie every semester in a unit on controversial children’s literature and we get into the ugly depictions of Native Americans included in this novel, consider how to treat them with children, etc. But Laura (the young character) consistently challenges the racist attitudes of the adults around her. And it’s important for our country to actually address the less flattering aspects of its history.
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Me too. I don’t understand why the controversial passages can’t be discussed so that young children understand that these may have been the attitudes of the time when Laura lived, but now we recognize that native Americans were not treated well by the federal government or the white citizenry. There is so much other positive information to be gained from her work! I loved these books as a child, but my ideas about native Americans were not formed by the passages she wrote. In fact, I had to look up when the controversial passages were when I first heard the story…
 
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that Is true 🙂

OTOH, we have continued to see ethnic genocides despite the cries of “never again!” after the Holocaust.
 
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OTOH, we have continued to see ethnic genocides despite the cries of “never again!” after the Holocaust.
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That is also true, though not in any of the Western nations. I blame that on a lack of Western values based on a Judeo-Christian worldview, honestly.
 
Yes, you’re right about the content of the books.

I’ve always been interested in her life and that of her family’s, as well.

If anyone gets the chance to visit any one of the Little House museum sites, I would encourage them to do so.

There were some things that had happened in her life and her family’s life that were very difficult and tragic.

Not only that, but I believe that her father was a Justice of the Peace at one time, and he handled some interesting and complex situations.

It really was the “Wild West” at times in our developing country as our country expanded westward, and we have to remember that there wasn’t law enforcement or many laws like we have now, either.

Life was very difficult for people during those times.
 
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