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[Hawkmoon]

Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder is no longer a person to be looked up to because (naturally) she was racist.

https://www.nhregister.com/entertainment/article/Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-s-name-stripped-from-13023141.php

[makattak]

Just bought a 9 volume set of her works. My children will enjoy it.

[RoadKingLarry]

The leftists are using tried and proven techniques. Control the language, control the history, control the narrative and you control the people. Worked well for the National Socialists German Workers Party.
For a while.

[zxcvbob]

The leftists are using tried and proven techniques. Control the language, control the history, control the narrative and you control the people. Worked well for the National Socialists German Workers Party.
For a while.

Dr. They: "...as Orson Welles once said, 'He who controls the past, controls the future.'"

Mulder: "It was George Orwell that said that."

Dr. They: "Well, for now maybe."

[Perd Hapley]

And let's not even get into her transphobia.

[MechAg94]

No one has any perspective.  Most of these leftists never make any effort to put themselves in another person's shoes.  They can't even imagine actually living in another time where their priorities might be wildly different. 

And I didn't think the Indians actually lived there.  They just passed through occasionally. 

[TommyGunn]

We seriously need to invent a time travel machine so we can go back into the past and eliminate these nascent Nazi wannabes before they can do really horrible things to people they will never be able to meet.

[Perd Hapley]

Do people even realize that Laura never baked
a cake for a same-sex wedding? Not once!

[MillCreek]

^^^^Nellie Oleson picked up the baton and ran with it: http://www.dispatch.com/article/20130620/entertainment/306209775

[Perd Hapley]

^^^^Nellie Oleson picked up the baton and ran with it: http://www.dispatch.com/article/20130620/entertainment/306209775

I thought she married that Jewish guy.

[Andiron]

They keep this up,  and Trump will remain in office forever.

This one has crossed into "fire up the helicopter rides" for me.  I loved those books as a kid.  Can't speak to the TV show, never watched it.

[Pb]

Here's an interesting read about the history behind Ma's terror of the Indians:

http://littlehouseontheprairie.com/historical-perspective-or-racism-in-little-house-on-the-prairie/

[MillCreek]

^^^That was a really good article.  My wife and I were talking about this last night, and the perils of using our 21st century sensibilities to judge the actions and attitudes of the past.  History and actions occur in a context of the culture and attitudes of the times.  Two centuries from now, which of our 'enlightened' attitudes will be seen as hopelessly old-fashioned, prejudiced or indecent?

[Perd Hapley]

I've read the books, and never once does any character ask another character their preferred pronouns.

Not once.

[Pb]

Two centuries from now, which of our 'enlightened' attitudes will be seen as hopelessly old-fashioned, prejudiced or indecent?

Probably every single one of them.

[Ben]

^^^That was a really good article.  My wife and I were talking about this last night, and the perils of using our 21st century sensibilities to judge the actions and attitudes of the past.  History and actions occur in a context of the culture and attitudes of the times.  Two centuries from now, which of our 'enlightened' attitudes will be seen as hopelessly old-fashioned, prejudiced or indecent?

Exactly.

[DittoHead]

The Ingalls family was part of the wave of squatters or illegal settlers who entered and established homes in Montgomery County.

Kind of ironic given the other hot topic of the minute.

[makattak]

Kind of ironic given the other hot topic of the minute.

Only slightly. Look how well that situation turned out for the original inhabitants.

[MechAg94]

Only slightly. Look how well that situation turned out for the original inhabitants.

Federal land grants and casinos? 

[Perd Hapley]

Here's an interesting read about the history behind Ma's terror of the Indians:

http://littlehouseontheprairie.com/historical-perspective-or-racism-in-little-house-on-the-prairie/

The book, The Long Death gives a detailed account of the Minnesota Sioux Uprising. Hair-raising stuff.

[Ben]

The book, The Long Death gives a detailed account of the Minnesota Sioux Uprising. Hair-raising stuff.

I might have to give that book a go. Of late I have been reading classic Westerns that are off copyright and free on Amazon and Gutenberg. It has gotten me to think a bit about the portrayal of the savage Indian that scalped and tortured every white settler they saw vs some modern interpretations of the Indian as a peaceful and innocent inhabitant of the land that wouldn't hurt a flea and was practically vegan.

I'd like to poke around in some reliable, factual history on the subject.

[TommyGunn]

I might have to give that book a go. Of late I have been reading classic Westerns that are off copyright and free on Amazon and Gutenberg. It has gotten me to think a bit about the portrayal of the savage Indian that scalped and tortured every white settler they saw vs some modern interpretations of the Indian as a peaceful and innocent inhabitant of the land that wouldn't hurt a flea and was practically vegan.

I'd like to poke around in some reliable, factual history on the subject.

You're going to find it a mixed bag.   The Indians didn't scalp, torture, or otherwise attack every settler they could get their hands on,  they weren't vegans but they did appreciate a balanced diet.  Some were friendly.  Some who were friendly became enemies when they found out we weren't all nice guys.  Some were allied with us only because their Indian enemies also became our enemies.   

[Hawkmoon]

There were something like 350 distinct tribes of "Indians" in North America in the period around 1700 to 1800. It stands to reason that they weren't all the same.

[Ben]

I recognize there are and were many tribes, many of them allied to European settlers. I was speaking more to tribes like the Apache, who until recent times were considered rather ruthless. Some modern accounts would portray them as puppy dogs that never took a single hair off a settler (or other tribes for that matter).

I've read some accounts (and they may be true, which is why I'd like to read further) that say it was the whites who started scalping, and the Indians copied it.

[Angel Eyes]

Hair-raising stuff.

Very punny.