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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/books/laura-ingalls-wilder-book-award.amp.html

[quote]Despite their popularity, Ms. Wilder’s books contain jarringly prejudicial portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans.

In the 1935 book “Little House on the Prairie,” for example, multiple characters espoused versions of the view that “the only good Indian was a dead Indian.” In one scene, a character describes Native Americans as “wild animals” undeserving of the land they lived on.

“Little Town on the Prairie,” published in 1941, included a description of a minstrel show with “five black-faced men in raggedy-taggedy uniforms” alongside a jolting illustration of the scene.

“There’s this subtle but very clear fear generated throughout the books,” said Debbie Reese, a scholar whose writing and research focus on portrayals of American Indians in children’s literature.

Dr. Reese, who belongs to the Nambe Pueblo tribe in New Mexico, said that the books could be used to educate high school or college students, but were inappropriate for young children.

“People are trying to use them and say, ‘Well, we can explain them,’ and I say: ‘O.K., you’re trying to explain racism to white people. Good for those white kids,’” she said. “But what about the Native and the black kids in the classroom who have to bear with the moment when they’re being denigrated for the benefit of the white kids?”
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It is important for even children to understand this stuff, the history of it, the why and how we are where we are today and where we have come from.

Kids are smarter than you give them credit for, and way smarter than the person you quoted could even imagine.[/quote]
My child of color doesn’t need to hear people of color referred to as “wild animals” so a white kid can have a Teachable Moment.  There are other books that depict pioneer life without offending everyone who is  non-white.[/quote]

Where, and when does anyone in Little House refer to people of color as "wild animals"?

Have you read the books?

The only actual black person in the entire series is Dr. Tan who saves their lives and the lives of all settlers. He is spoken of very favorably, including Laura saying how much she liked him.[/quote]

Why don’t you try reading the NYTimes article in the post you’re responding to which references the “wild animals” passage.  After all, this thread is about reading.  Anyway, the passage is from Little House in the big Woods which you would know if you had read the book carefully.[/quote]

Little House in the Big Woods does not talk about Indians.  I do not think they are even mentioned in the first book, although I could be wrong.[/quote]

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