Posted on 07/16/2018 5:22:25 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN
I was sitting on my daughters bed reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, and this and other scenes in Little House on the Prairie stopped me cold. What had been, in my gauzy memory, a beautiful and pure story was complicated by passages like this: Why dont you like Indians, Ma? Laura asked, and she caught a drop of molasses with her tongue. I just dont like them; and dont lick your fingers, Laura, said Ma.
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“Uncritical” readings are presumably for innocuous children’s books like “Heather Has Two Mommies.”
So for that reason --- and by reason of their overwhelming numerical superiority --- that the Europeans would dominate, was inevitable. But the WAY they dominated was unconscionable.
Not to indulge in any "noble savage" nonsense, nevertheless the Euro-Americans advanced by the near-total violation of every written treaty. Trail of Tears. For the most part, it was treaty-breaking and land-theft plain and simple.
Home-schoolers ---all parents, that is, but in my ideal world all parents would be home-schoolers --- would be well advised to grab up the oldest books they can get, like NOW before they end up in the landfill. They provide a crucial source of cultural reflection, and are incomparably richer than the crap that's being put out today.
Yep.
If they caught them, the Indians would either have hideously mutilated them and burned them at the stake or turned them into slaves after they sliced their Achilles tendons so they wouldn't run off.
They wouldn't have tried to ransom them back as they know they wouldn't be worth anything.
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Besides the books, what about all the movies and tv shows.
History must be re-written again and again as the snowflakes demand it.
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