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duchessofreadin's review
5.0
These stories were a great collection! I enjoyed the history tidbits at the end as well. Young readers will enjoy these stories and the illustrations that go along with them. Easy to read, and broken down as to not be overwhelming.
rebus's review
0.5
It is works like these that perpetrate the lie of history and brainwash the children in American society, seeming to tell a tale of man versus nature and the plucky work of businessmen. What it is, in fact, is something designed to whitewash history and cover up the fact that the fur trade was not a true collaborative effort--natives were coerced into it and only came to 'rely' upon it because their harmonious relationship with their ecosystem was being upended--or any sort of natural progression between intrepid explorers and indigenous peoples, but the genocidal work of colonial imperialists. There is scarcely any death portrayed in the volume, just the worship of the white supremacists who conquered this land. While nearly all of the 180 million natives in the Americas were wiped out, these dimwitted authors call the deaths (by misadventure and stupidity) of 6 members of a HS basketball team in 1935 driving across Lake Michigan a great tragedy.
Indeed, the laborers who were exploited and went unpaid are described as 'hungry wolves' and the natives who were forced away from their lifestyles are referred to as 'traders'. The natural elements being used as animistic narrator is a very poor choice. The authors also laud an intrepid mailman, clearly not understanding the the Post Office has always been the purview of power, privilege, and commerce (guess they haven't read Pynchon or Bukowski's thoughts on this evil institution). They even write that early newspapers cared only about stories, not facts, failing to realize that the mass media exists SOLELY to provide propaganda and brainwash its citizens, which has never been more true than in the modern age.
Of course, one look at these two women reveals that they are the very personification of (in one case very ugly) white privilege. They are the reason your children are so stupid and far right wing, but believing they are good liberals because they put signs in their yards. The artwork is decent, but that too only serves to illustrate how bankrupt the visual arts have become in the last century or two, wholly sold out to establishment narratives of entitled white upper middle class privilege (which IS white supremacism).
Indeed, the laborers who were exploited and went unpaid are described as 'hungry wolves' and the natives who were forced away from their lifestyles are referred to as 'traders'. The natural elements being used as animistic narrator is a very poor choice. The authors also laud an intrepid mailman, clearly not understanding the the Post Office has always been the purview of power, privilege, and commerce (guess they haven't read Pynchon or Bukowski's thoughts on this evil institution). They even write that early newspapers cared only about stories, not facts, failing to realize that the mass media exists SOLELY to provide propaganda and brainwash its citizens, which has never been more true than in the modern age.
Of course, one look at these two women reveals that they are the very personification of (in one case very ugly) white privilege. They are the reason your children are so stupid and far right wing, but believing they are good liberals because they put signs in their yards. The artwork is decent, but that too only serves to illustrate how bankrupt the visual arts have become in the last century or two, wholly sold out to establishment narratives of entitled white upper middle class privilege (which IS white supremacism).
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