Little House on the Prairie

Aldarion said:

I was foolishly optimistic when I saw that they'd cast ordinary American people to play the Ingles.

Then black doctor, LMAO. Yeah, a black doctor on the fucking prairie in the fucking 1800s.

LHOTP always had a subtext about sympathy for injuns. Their presence alone in the trailer isnt enough to damn it. But with the black doctor casting, we can be damn sure they're gonna Dances With Wolves all over this thing.

Its a shame. I really wish they'd just stop remaking shit if they can't stick to the source material.

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• Dr. George A. Tann (c. 1825–1909): One of the most famous Black physicians of this era, Dr. Tann practiced in Montgomery County, Kansas, on the Osage Diminished Reserve. He is notably mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie (as "Dr. Tan") for saving the Ingalls family from "fever 'n' ague" (malaria) in 1870. Born free in Pennsylvania and a veteran of the Union Army, he settled in Kansas during the post-Civil War westward migration.
• Dr. Matthew O. Ricketts (1858–1922): Born into slavery, Dr. Ricketts became Omaha, Nebraska’s first Black physician after graduating from Omaha Medical College in 1884. Beyond medicine, he was a prominent community leader and became Nebraska’s first Black state legislator in 1892.
• Dr. Charles A. Flippin (1844–1929): An African American physician who established a practice in Henderson, Nebraska, in 1888. His son, Dr. George Flippin, also became a physician and later joined his father in Nebraska to open one of the area’s first hospitals. [1, 2, 4, 5]