Yeah I was watching the 1953 Calamity Jane Musical on the television, and there is a scene where they just take in the Splendor of the beauty of nature as they travel to this party, and they start singing a song. But before they do they remark
“No matter them injuns are fighting so hard to keep this wonderful place”
Which was a line that made me do a double take and go “Or maybe the more important fact that it’s… ya know… theirs to begin with?”
I just finished a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie and other books in that series. In one of her books she had a line describing her part of the West as “a land that had no people in it”. In the 1950s, shortly before she died, a young fan wrote to her and pointed out that there were, in fact, people in it: the Indians. To her credit, Wilder wrote back that she had made a mistake and of course Indians were people, and she had future editions of the book edited to say “a land that had no settlers in it”.
Yeah I was watching the 1953 Calamity Jane Musical on the television, and there is a scene where they just take in the Splendor of the beauty of nature as they travel to this party, and they start singing a song. But before they do they remark
“No matter them injuns are fighting so hard to keep this wonderful place”
Which was a line that made me do a double take and go “Or maybe the more important fact that it’s… ya know… theirs to begin with?”
I just finished a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie and other books in that series. In one of her books she had a line describing her part of the West as “a land that had no people in it”. In the 1950s, shortly before she died, a young fan wrote to her and pointed out that there were, in fact, people in it: the Indians. To her credit, Wilder wrote back that she had made a mistake and of course Indians were people, and she had future editions of the book edited to say “a land that had no settlers in it”.