Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s book award over ‘Little House’ depictions of Native Americans
Classic children's books and movies are still popular today. Here are some example of iconic stories that contain prejudice unacceptable by modern standards.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honor, from the Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of “Little House on the Prairie” about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native Americans...
And where “there were no people. Only Indians lived there.”
I am sure she meant "no Caucasian people" just Indians, but of course that's NOT how it was taken, it's not how WAPO wants it to be taken...now it's an issue
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