"Did you know the man who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz called for the extermination of all Native American people in the United States? Before he was famous as an author, L. Frank Baum ran a small newspaper in South Dakota called the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. Now, this newspaper ran from the early 1880s to the 1890s. In 1890, after the Wounded Knee Massacre and the assassination of Sitting Bull, L. Frank Baum published two native editorials. In those editorials, he was claiming that white people had won the continent and that the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the complete annihilation of the remaining Indians. He went even further, arguing that the government should wipe these untamed, untamable creatures off the face of this planet. So we're not talking about vague prejudice or normal-for-the-time racism. These were literally written calls for Native destruction. This is roughly 10 years before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900. Which means those genocidal ideas were part of his worldview, as he's creating one of the most famous children's stories in American history. Some scholars have pointed out that once you know this, it changes how you read Oz, where in the story you're understanding who's civilized, who's savage, and who gets to belong. Many decades later, Baum's family went to South Dakota to publicly apologize to the Lakota people, especially for his editorials and his call for genocide. I'm not telling you all of this so you never watch Wizard of Oz again. But I am saying that Native people are asked to just enjoy these classics as it is written by men who call for their genocide. Knowing the truth about storytellers is part of understanding the stories, and it's part of understanding the history that many communities still carry today. If you want to support the page, then more PayPal me five bucks. Other than that, like the video, follow the page, have a great day."