I'm very conflicted about Reese's commentary. Because while I absolutely love what she's doing--especially in terms of making more accurate portrayals more well-known, and asking us to critique and reexamine our assumptions about a beloved text, I am deeply uncomfortable with the fact that there is a push to remove the books entirely from elementary school libraries.

I don't think we should let the negative portrayals stand without comment, but I also don't think we're doing children any favors by ignoring some of the racial attitudes of the time. And I'm not sure you're going to find books written from that pov about the frontier by people who were there that don't have negative portrayals and racist language. (That does not make it okay.) I think the better response is balance--read LHOP alongside a Native American account of the period.