little house on somebody else's prairie
- Feb. 27th, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Here is something I bet you didn't know: while living "on the prairie" Laura Ingalls Wilder's family was actually squatting Osage land.
the rest of the site is very enlightening as well. click around.
the rest of the site is very enlightening as well. click around.
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secondfirst thought, though.I watched the "little house on the prairie" tv series when I was a young teenager and at the time I had no decent historical grounding and so didn't make the connection. I don't recall any episodes written about the Osage people at all.
I hadn't thought about it for a long time but seeing it on Oyate's list of books to avoid made me curious as to exactly what was going on "behind the scenes"--although apparently there's plenty of explicit defamation in the book itself, which I never have read.
I am not surprised, although it is so intense to read about this stuff. There is so much of this history that has been buried, but it is still there, beneath the surface. Thanks for posting.
anyway I watched the LHotP show with my mom when it was on. it's one of those things about which I am deeply ashamed. :) in fact I'll admit to liking John Denver before I'll mention that I watched this show. I still like John Denver. the show was schlock.
Actually, it even says so in the LH on the Prarie book. Some of us with activist parents made sure we were fully aware of that. (And the class bias in Little Women?)
I like this site, tho...
Of course, you'd have to keep in mind that I come from a "half-breed" family (Ft. Sill Apache/Chicano/Canadian Metis/Euro-American) and we all had the sickest sense of humor...
Sometimes--as you know--that is all you can do in the face of oppression is laugh at the oppressor while confronting them...
reminds me of all the Cleveland Indians caps I saw people wearing in the Navajo Nation. clearly they were making fun of the ridiculous lengths that white folks will go to to justify blatant, public-sponsored racism.
Those Cleveland hats are really popular...I have seen more than a few Native folk wear them with pleasurable sense of irony...