The Sign of the Beaver | Social Sensitivity
Speare handles difficult cultural conflicts with sensitivity and tact. The story is told primarily from the perspective of Matt, a young white settler and a sympathetic character. As Matt begins to understand and appreciate Attean's culture, he realizes the enormity of the problems that the settlers are causing for Native Americans. The Native Americans do not have concepts of land ownership as the settlers do, but they have definitely marked hunting territories. Because the Native American ways of staking out territory differ from the settlers' ways, the settlers simply ignore them. As...
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