I bought a copy from Mr. Bagby last year at Scyldings. I’ve been enjoying reading the stories to my young boy. The colloquial style that makes it harder to immerse an adult also makes these stories a bit safer for children than they might otherwise be. They work to get ahead of myths of the gentle Indians that he will soon be exposed to. He will know that this country was built by pioneers who faced stiff odds to survive. I don’t feel a great depth of historical knowledge is needed for most of these stories. The story of a fort surrounded by tribal warriors and Mccolloch’s desperate leap to fight on another day, the story of a captured Christian villager who knew he would be killed in the morning but for the intervention of Providence and his belief that “faith without works is dead”, the wife that fought by her husbands side because she could not stand to be apart tell us who these people were and who we are capable of being too.
Isn't it about time we Westerners stopped calling the early and present time imperialist and/or colonialist invaders by using the seemingly neutral anodyne word "settlers". In America they were participating in the systematic theft of the land and resources of the "Indians" - the only good "Indian"
was a dead one.
We use the same anodyne language here in Australia. We considered and treated the "Aborigines" as sub-human.
It is of course used to "describe" those who are actively and violently dispossessing the Palestinians, especially in the West Bank.
When I was a boy, back in the dark ages, my parents had a copy of the _Life Treasury of American Folklore_. I read the heck out of that book.
I bought a copy from Mr. Bagby last year at Scyldings. I’ve been enjoying reading the stories to my young boy. The colloquial style that makes it harder to immerse an adult also makes these stories a bit safer for children than they might otherwise be. They work to get ahead of myths of the gentle Indians that he will soon be exposed to. He will know that this country was built by pioneers who faced stiff odds to survive. I don’t feel a great depth of historical knowledge is needed for most of these stories. The story of a fort surrounded by tribal warriors and Mccolloch’s desperate leap to fight on another day, the story of a captured Christian villager who knew he would be killed in the morning but for the intervention of Providence and his belief that “faith without works is dead”, the wife that fought by her husbands side because she could not stand to be apart tell us who these people were and who we are capable of being too.
To your point on 'people hood, how does 1 Peter 2:9 change the question?
Isn't it about time we Westerners stopped calling the early and present time imperialist and/or colonialist invaders by using the seemingly neutral anodyne word "settlers". In America they were participating in the systematic theft of the land and resources of the "Indians" - the only good "Indian"
was a dead one.
We use the same anodyne language here in Australia. We considered and treated the "Aborigines" as sub-human.
It is of course used to "describe" those who are actively and violently dispossessing the Palestinians, especially in the West Bank.