THE BASKET WOMAN A BOOK OF INDIAN TALES FOR CHILDREN
In MaryAustin’s tales, a boy learns the secrets of the trees and animals and the wisdom of the people who flourished before the arrival of the white settlers.
This is a book of folksy tales written from the perspective of the pioneers of the westward expansion. As such, there are two distinct underlying themes; one that the American Indians are better off as they are now, and the second that Europeans are better than Indians. The first two stories were particularly bad, (they’re parts one and two of a single story), but the themes popped up in every other story or so–pretty much any tale where the pioneers and Indians came into contact. The other stories were mainly about anthropomorphized landscape features, such as a river or a tree.In MaryAustin’s tales, a boy learns the secrets of the trees and animals and the wisdom of the people who flourished before the arrival of the white settlers.
This is a book of folksy tales written from the perspective of the pioneers of the westward expansion. As such, there are two distinct underlying themes; one that the American Indians are better off as they are now, and the second that Europeans are better than Indians. The first two stories were particularly bad, (they’re parts one and two of a single story), but the themes popped up in every other story or so–pretty much any tale where the pioneers and Indians came into contact. The other stories were mainly about anthropomorphized landscape features, such as a river or a tree.
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