Analysis of the issue in historical context, including comparison and contrast. Laura Ingalls Wilder's family moved to De Smet, South Dakota, when Laura was 11-12 years old (Brammer & Greetham, 2008)
Some of those contributions and challenges are presented here in no particular order of importance. First, Wilder's work fails to address the westward movement of some women as missionaries determined to teach Christianity to the Native Americans (Burns, 1996)
The chapter called "Moving In" in Little House on the Prairie describes their experiences and hard work after relocating to De Smet. The chapter accurately gives an idea of the Great Prairie's vastness, wildness loneliness and possible dangers (DuBois & Dumenil, 2016, pp
Finally, though these atrocities involved an entire ethnic group, including its women, Wilder's work makes no room for the abominable treatment of Native Americans by westward expansionists. This treatment is particularly relevant to the geographic area discussed in Wilder's works because her family were actually squatters on land given to the Osage tribe by federal treaty (Kaye, 2000)
Female missionary work was not confined to one or two religious sects. Single laywomen and nuns from the Reformed (Dutch) Church (Sangster, 1877), Baptist Church (Bailey, 1891), United Evangelical Church (Steinmetz, 1910) and Roman Catholic Church (Keller, Reuther, & Cantlon, 2006) all ventured West before, during and after the period covered by Wilder's work to "save" the Native Americans
As western expansionists, the Wilders were in the mids of atrocities perpetrated against American Indians, including but not limited to the abovementioned deliberate near-genocide of American Indians and the intentional theft of America and all its resources from them. In fact, the very term "redskin" comes from the bounty paid for bloodied Native American scalps (Roppolo, 2006), representing the deliberate murder of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans
This was particularly relevant to North Dakota, as gold was found in the Black Hills in 1870, setting off a tsunami of prospectors and the establishment of many mining towns (Burns, 1996). Prostitutes who relocated during the westward expansion led a dismal existence, rife with alcoholism, drug addiction, venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies, physical abuse and poor wages (Rutter, 2005), and suicide became one of the their leading causes of death (Burns, 1996)
Female missionary work was not confined to one or two religious sects. Single laywomen and nuns from the Reformed (Dutch) Church (Sangster, 1877), Baptist Church (Bailey, 1891), United Evangelical Church (Steinmetz, 1910) and Roman Catholic Church (Keller, Reuther, & Cantlon, 2006) all ventured West before, during and after the period covered by Wilder's work to "save" the Native Americans
Female missionary work was not confined to one or two religious sects. Single laywomen and nuns from the Reformed (Dutch) Church (Sangster, 1877), Baptist Church (Bailey, 1891), United Evangelical Church (Steinmetz, 1910) and Roman Catholic Church (Keller, Reuther, & Cantlon, 2006) all ventured West before, during and after the period covered by Wilder's work to "save" the Native Americans
61, 65, 68, 72, 79). The somewhat enviable simplicity and scarcity of their lives was also illustrated in Wilder's work (Wilder, 1953, pp
The Stamp Act of 1765 unfairly taxed all paper documents and paper materials. Instead of granting the colonies greater independence, the British instead imposed the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, as well as mandate a standing army ("Effects of the War," n