I also think it is important to note that most of these books are much more accurate than the ideas the critics want to portray. The whole point of Kaya's stories is to depict the beautiful and rich lifestyle of her tribe BEFORE the interaction with Europeans. Kirsten would never have considered that she was "taking land away" from native Americans. Girls of these times had a very different worldview than we do now, and AG accurately captures that. It really bothers me as someone who has devoted a lot of time to studying history (four years of college plus some)to hear people trying to impose their morality on a very different world. It's closed-minded and flat out inaccurate. Just because we believe something is wrong today doesn't mean that we ought to imply that everyone always thought it was wrong. Well, I'm starting to get fired up about it, so I should stop. But it's time people stop treating a world of two hundred years ago like it is happening today.