I am without a doubt certain that this book has a deeply flawed and problematic nature to it. It’s a book about a white boy who goes to live with the Cheyenne after his family has been killed. He grows up among them, he learns from them, adopts their culture, customs, and language, proves himself enough to earn the name “Little Big Man” and then also finds himself repeatedly separated from and reunited with them. So it’s already rife with potentially problems. The issue for […]
The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.
Little Big Man by John Berger