Laura Ingalls Wilder's name stripped from children's literary award

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In the opening chapter of Little House on the Prairie she wrote, "...a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no people. Only Indians lived there." In 1952 "people" was changed to "settlers."

The award will now be known as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award.

“The ALSC Board recognizes that Wilder’s legacy is complex and that her work is not universally embraced,” the association said in February when it announced a task force to examine the naming of the award. “It continues to be a focus of scholarship and literary analysis, which often brings to light anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments in her work. The ALSC Board recognizes that legacy may no longer be consistent with the intention of the award named for her.”

https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/06/laura-ingalls-wilders-name-stripped-from-childrens-literary-award/

Interesting. I've not read any of her books but know that a few other people who post here have.