Daniel Boone | Social Sensitivity
America's social consciousness about the white settlers' treatment of Native Americans has changed dramatically in the fifty years since Daniel Boone was written. Daugherty fails to question the settlers' assumption that they had an unalienable right to the land that Native Americans had lived off of for centuries— an assumption that led to tragic consequences for Native American culture. The text refers to Native Americans as "savages" and "varmints," and the lavish illustrations depict them viciously attacking white settlers. The racist assumptions underlying the narrative are...
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