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Review title: The ignorance of Alice Dalgliesh???
Product review: The book is full of insidious negative stereotypes.Native Americans are "heathen savages", their children are " like little brown mice", their names are oh so unpronounceable and the protagonists breathe a big sigh of relief that their little daughter, a very endearing child has come out of the care of those "Indians" unharmed!!This is the backdrop of the story of courage, a very good story no doubt of a girl and her father who brave the prejudices of their times and decide to treat the "Indians" with kindness and are pleasantly surprised that the kindness is returned and that nobody actually tries to make a meal of them!! Simon and Schuster themselves refer to the the challenge of the little girl as having to deal with "animals and Indians too" all in the same breath. I understand that this is a very popular third grade book. Am I the only one offended by this and I am not even Native American!!
