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Title: Disapointed by sterotypes and bias in book
Review: While reading this book to my daughter who is learning about Native American culture for school, we were both shocked to find this sentence: "Many of the Indian tribes of North America built their culture around the pursuit of war". This is a horrible misstatement that is not only factually inaccurate but also incredibly disrespectful and offensive to Native American tribes everywhere. It plays into the stereotype of the 'war mongering Indian' which is a falsehood and I am disappointed to see this type of language used in a book claiming to be an educational source on Native American culture. If you want to learn Native American culture, it's safer to get the information from them and not from some biased, ignorant author. Here is a comprehensive list of websites run by various Native tribes themselves: [...]
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