Talk:The Education of Little Tree

message: Will someone please write more about the controversy?  (i.e. how the book is considered fraudulent by the Native-American community?)128.187.0.164 02:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.--Alabamaboy 00:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's quite valuable. The problem is, the article now has an undue emphasis against the book and against Forrest Carter. Neeed to balance this with information about the book's perceived merits and so forth, and/or trimming or tempering the negative statements about the book and Carter by making them neutral. This article needs neutrality. Wikipedia (the first stop when people hear about something and want to investigate it) should not be an undiluted scathing criticism of anything. Softlavender (talk) 09:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: I just rectified the lack of an Infobox. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 18:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: If there is some element of a hoax involved in the story's publication, let's make this clear in the intro. Readers need to know that its current status as fictional memoir represents a change from the earlier claim to represent historical fiction, if this is the case. --Uncle Ed (talk) 14:17, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a note about this book.  Much has been written about the author - Asa Carter, not Forrest Carter.  It seems to be true that Asa Carter was a writer and a media personality in Alabama during segregation, and that he wrote speeches for George Wallace, who was a segregationist Governor and candidate for President.  However, this does not obviate the fact that Carter claims to have been an Indian person, or at least a person with Indian heritage in his family.  There is not law that says an Indian cannot be a bigot or an anti-semite, if indeed Carter was these things.  At the same time, there is evidence that there were Cherokee people in his family.  I know this to be true because I have met people who knew his family, and to this day, they will attest to this fact.  This may be anecdotal evidence, but much of the criticism of Carter is likewise vague and ill-defined.  If an Indian person wanted to excel in the field of political writing back in the 50's and 60's in segregationist Alabama, he would have had to write for segregationish politicians.  And if a mixed blood Indian wanted to get ahead in the South back in those days, he would have to have joined the Klan.  And he would have had to do those things if he wanted to pass for white.  None of the evidence against Carter negates these things.  I know this because I am a mixed blood Indian person, and all of these things could be said of me.  And yet, I remain a person of Indian heritage.  If Carter says he is one such person, then I am inclined to accept that it could be so.Bigdatut (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:07, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
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message: little tree is a kid that got adopted at age 5. he would later die of a disease at age 8.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.71.64.178 (talk) 16:01, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The above is completely false.  The character of Little Tree does not die in this novel.Bigdatut (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
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