(no subject)
Jul. 13th, 2020 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynMistaken Impressions- well, Impression- I Had As A Kid
Recent Supreme Court-inspired Edition
As a little kid, my parents bought me a series of books called The Value Of... Each one was a kid-suitable biography of a different famous person, with lots of cartoon pictures and an adult-suitable one-page small print biography on the last page. I got two each month. I don't remember what Louis Pasteur was The Value Of, but I do remember the other book that month, and it was The Value of Truth and Trust: The Story Of Cochise.
Today's Mistaken Impression I Had As A Kid is brought to you by that book. I never heard the phrase 'Indian giver' before reading it, but when I did eventually hear it, I thought it referred to the actions of the US Government in agreeing to treaties, then saying SIKE, WE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIED, TAKING IT BACK NOW.
My mother disabused me of that notion quickly when I told her what Danielle had called me. Mom also once stole a children's story book from the New York Public Library because she didn't think a book that perpetuated 'they all live in teepees and have horses and the men all wear feathers in their hair' stereotypes should be loaned out to the public.
(Worth noting: there was at least one other Native American in the Value Of... series. Unfortunately, for some reason I never got The Value Of Adventure: The Story of Sacajawea. Pity. Would've liked to see that one.)
Recent Supreme Court-inspired Edition
As a little kid, my parents bought me a series of books called The Value Of... Each one was a kid-suitable biography of a different famous person, with lots of cartoon pictures and an adult-suitable one-page small print biography on the last page. I got two each month. I don't remember what Louis Pasteur was The Value Of, but I do remember the other book that month, and it was The Value of Truth and Trust: The Story Of Cochise.
Today's Mistaken Impression I Had As A Kid is brought to you by that book. I never heard the phrase 'Indian giver' before reading it, but when I did eventually hear it, I thought it referred to the actions of the US Government in agreeing to treaties, then saying SIKE, WE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIED, TAKING IT BACK NOW.
My mother disabused me of that notion quickly when I told her what Danielle had called me. Mom also once stole a children's story book from the New York Public Library because she didn't think a book that perpetuated 'they all live in teepees and have horses and the men all wear feathers in their hair' stereotypes should be loaned out to the public.
(Worth noting: there was at least one other Native American in the Value Of... series. Unfortunately, for some reason I never got The Value Of Adventure: The Story of Sacajawea. Pity. Would've liked to see that one.)
no subject
Date: 2020-07-13 08:38 pm (UTC)