What is it about?
This article examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's representation of indigenous peoples in her novel Little House on the Prairie. Ultimately, the figure of the Indian functions as vehicle to explore white anxieties and white desires.
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Why is it important?
This article is important because it demonstrates how Little House on the Prairie denies the real experience of aboriginal Americans in order to validate the assimilation of the American landscape to the civilizing project of frontier settlement.
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This page is a summary of: "The Only Good Indian": History, Race, and Representation in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, Children s Literature Association Quarterly, January 2002, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.1688.
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