The Little House is now taboo

The SJW who run some library association has decided that the Little House on the Praries series is "racist" because Laura was afraid of Indians, who happened to be pushing back against settlers at that time, but never mind.

but the audiobook of the series is on Youtube.

My favorite: The Long Winter.............




update:

The harsh reality of food in the Little House series (Atlas Obscura)

Pioneer food was often stodgy, plain, or altogether absent. While Laura’s family is concerned throughout the book with packing away stores to make it through harsh winters, Wilder tends to gloss over the risk of famine or even death. In summertime or fall, pioneers might feast on bear meat (Laura’s favorite), buffalo, venison, elk, and antelope, unconstrained by the big game laws of the Old World. But in winter, when nothing grew or could be hunted, pioneers were vulnerable...

... Out on the open frontier, or deep in the woods, there was no market economy or community to fall back on during difficult months.

In On the Banks of Plum Creek, a plague of grasshoppers destroy the family’s wheat crops and force them to move. Later, in The Long Winter, Wilder describes a brutal 1880 winter in De Smet, South Dakota, that lasted from October to April...

Ma and Pa spend almost all their time simply trying to keep the family alive. For Ma, each day is taken up with menial upkeep of the home (washing, ironing, mending, churning, cleaning, baking), usually while pregnant. Meanwhile, Pa is out in the woods, hunting whatever he can find and avoiding the wrath of hungry bears. By contrast, salt-rising bread, sugar cakes, and maple syrup candy are perhaps prominently featured in the books precisely because they were such rare occurrences.

Via TeaAtTrianon.

and Little house webpage has a long article putting the fear of Indians into perspective.

and the Wikipedia page on the Dakota wars of 1862, the culmination of the war between the encroaching farmers and the Indians who saw the land as where they could hunt freely.

like most wars, there is enough blame to go around on both sides.

And a lot of modern "wars" are similar arguments on who owns the land and if migrants should be able to just move in without the permission of those who lived there first.