What's age got to do with it?  They are children, not imbeciles.  And they deserve the truth.
  I read Howard Carter's book on the excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb when I was in third grade and I was enthralled.  If I found out that guy had sprinkled his book with inaccuracies to make my reading more entertaining, I'd personally dig up his skull, slap a handle on it and use it as a coffee cup. 
   
  

Linda Threadgill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Clara, For one reason, their age
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clara Callahan" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Native American Culture


> If you're trying to get children to read and learn, why on earth would you 
> run the risk of losing credibility by teaching them something that is 10% 
> inaccurate? Why not 20% or even 50%? I would think that the goal should 
> be to get it right, not just get it published. Perfect example is 
> Eckert's description of how Blue Jacket killed his white brother in 
> battle. That inaccuracy has tainted ALL of his work.

Clara,
Some reasons could be the ages of the children and their comprehension 
level. AND seems to me, you might be forgetting for a moment that all races 
have some brutality against other ethnic groups and their own ethnic group 
in their history. Those same Europeans who were being killed by these 
"savages" were the ones who brought slavey to American. Who fought and 
killed their country men in the name of independence. Who killed each other 
for supposedly practicing witchcraft. Who and what determines who was more 
brutal and savage?

Linda,

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