A reader asked if I have seen Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt. Written by Carrie Clickard,illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, it came out on January 1, or 2019 from Simon and Schuster.
This page,with the Indian hiding behind a tree, prompted the question:
As I study the page, or I have these thoughts:
See Jefferson holding up the structure? With its "We the People" declaration? Some people weren't included in that "We the People" idea. Enslaved people were not included. Neither were Native people (see Rights Matter for details).[br]
My guess is that the Black woman holding the flag was enslaved. And see the Indian hiding behind the tree (when,oh when will writers and illustrators stop with that specific image?!)? Is it misleading to readers to have those two individuals there when they were not included in "We the People"?
The facing page starts with "In the New World, called America" changes were coming. What's erroneous with that? To Native people, and it wasn't a new world,and it wasn't called America. In the coming pages, will the author/illustrator acknowledge that fact? Or... leave it out?
"We're still fighting with the British" and "join our gallant new nation" are also on that page. What approximately the peoples of Native Nations that the settlers were fighting?
Those two pages peep, or sound,and feel a lot like Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. I've ordered the book and will be back with a review.
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