![]() He carves on the bottom, "Please put me back in water. There's a young Indian boy who carves a piece of pine wood in the shape of an Indian riding in a canoe, puts some metal on it and paints it with oil paint. ![]() Some of the white characters use language like "Injuns" and "red" to refer to the American Indians, but others don't, and it seems more like a portrait of America at the time than judging whether one group is better than the other.Īt any rate, it starts off in Canada. It depicts Native Americans as living a different kind of life from the white Americans it depicts, and I'm not sure how accurate the portrayal is. It's certainly not overtly racist as a book. I honestly have no idea if this book is racist. They're certainly long enough to be called chapters. It describes its spreads as chapters, and there are 27 of them. It's one of those old style books where each spread has a full-page color image on one side and text on the other side, although the side with the text also has black and white illustrations around it which is kind of interesting. It goes on forever, and it's just so wordy. ![]() This book is way too long to read to a modern kid. ![]()
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