Foundational Fairytales and the Lies They Tell On Books, Children and Truth by Oriel María Siu, PhD

There used to be a time in occupied America when only whites were allowed to write, read, and publish books. In fact, when Europeans started occupying the continent in 1492, one of the first things they did was burn the thousands of existing books Indigenous people had written in an attempt to destroy peoples' existing relationship with books and their contained knowledges.

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