Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

If we’re learning anything in our “woke” times, it’s that nothing is sacred. There’s also the poignant tragedy of Laura’s sister, Mary, losing her sight - a tragedy that foisted additional responsibility on Laura and seemed to belie a perfect happily ever after for the Ingalls family.Īnd don’t think that Laura Ingalls Wilder will be the last writer to be hunted down in the ongoing cultural purge. Throughout the series, there is tension between Laura’s parents - her dad, Charles, who always wants to go to the next frontier, and her mother, Caroline, who wants to live with other families and be part of a larger community. Of course Indians are people and I did not intend to imply they were not.'Īnd like any good writer, Wilder allowed there to be ambiguity. Good riddance to the Miss America swimsuit contest, but did we have to lose fitness, too?Īnd that sentence that implied Native Americans weren’t people? Well, in 1952, when an editor passed on to Wilder herself a reader’s concern about it, Wilder responded greenlighting changing the sentence, which became “… there were no settlers.” She wrote to the editor, “It was a stupid blunder of mine. Let's bury the word 'diversity' and listen to communities of color before a crisis hits More: Arthur Miller failed a profound moral test. He talked with Pa and Ma, and laughed a rolling, jolly laugh. They all wanted him to stay longer, but he had to hurry away.” She would have been afraid of him if she had not liked him so much. He smiled at her with all his white teeth.

“Then the doctor came. And he was the black man. Laura had never seen a black man before and she could not take her eyes off Dr. Wilder also attributes the lives of herself, her sisters, and her parents being saved by the intervention of an African-American doctor:

Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder