tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post6333858408671598591..comments2024-03-27T14:08:51.191-05:00Comments on American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL): Not recommended: INTO THE WOODS (book one in the "Bigfoot Boy" series of graphic novels) by Torres and HicksDebbie Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972409006633565859noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-51429503732728787052018-12-22T17:21:53.000-06:002018-12-22T17:21:53.000-06:00Either projection (especially when one considers h...Either projection (especially when one considers how often White people touch, or try to touch, Black people's kinky hair) or an attempt to make such kinky-hair-touching (objectification, that is) look logical. I suspect it's the second. Although I wonder why White authors never seem to feature Native people thinking of White people as "exotic", when they <i>have</i> depicted Native men as rapists of White women. Which is a <i>very</i> egregious case of projection, especially when Native women are more likely to be raped by White men <i>today</i>—something which I strongly suspect to have its origins in that Biblical law about virgins to be taken as spoils of war. The same goes for Manifest Destiny, which came from Whites seeing America as the Promised Land, hence all that genocide.Sam Jonsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037969317578064759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-1568353518860446732018-06-02T17:37:55.487-05:002018-06-02T17:37:55.487-05:00Yeah -here is my review from a while back. Not rec...Yeah -here is my review from a while back. Not recommended ! <br />https://wordpress.com/post/booktoss.blog/203Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00907873452918593339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-42348629300013535422018-05-27T12:22:45.055-05:002018-05-27T12:22:45.055-05:00I haven't seen this first volume of the series...I haven't seen this first volume of the series; I only know the second book "The Unkindness of Ravens," where I didn't recognize Penny as being a Native girl. She first appears in book 2 digging holes in the forest looking for a "totem" of her own--that didn't strike me as something a local kid would do, more like an archaeological-digging-for-treasure trope bordering on grave robbery. A brown girl archaeologist--that's cool, we could use more of those; grave robber--no. I guess it's supposed to remind us of a skunk digging for insects. Anyway, it doesn't help to redeem the book.Mike Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03638747470635148177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27760240.post-37903917358416472682018-05-27T11:04:54.717-05:002018-05-27T11:04:54.717-05:00The "touching red hair" thing always puz...The "touching red hair" thing always puzzles me, too. No Natives of any generation I've ever met do this, but lots of settlers touch, stroke, grab our hair without permission and seem fascinated by it. Projection, maybe?Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.com