![]() ![]() You really do get a sense of the impact that the settlers had on the Native Americans through Squanto’s own journey, and personally I think that’s the best way to approach complicated issues. All I felt like I needed to explain was that we don’t say “Indian” anymore, we say “Native American.” Bulla does give Squanto a stilted way of speaking when he’s meant to be speaking English, but it was not sterotypical dialect (and therefore laughable), but rather served to easily remind a young reader that Squanto is a fish out of water.Īpart from that I felt like the book was an age-appropriate introduction to an important part of American history and even presented some of the complex issues surrounding our nation’s origins without getting too didactic. First of all, I was prepared to stop if it veered into anything offensive, like a noble savage stereotype, and that never happened. ![]() I read Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims, aloud to my almost 5-year-old, and I have to say I’m a little obsessed. ![]() The story of Squanto, the Native American who helped the pilgrims and journeyed to England. ![]()
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