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https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/files/2020/12/40LOQnl-asset-mezzanine-16x9-MXAR72s.jpg1350760The logs that Charles Ingalls used to build the little house on the prairie did not belong to him but to the Osage Indians, says Laura Ingalls Wilder biographer Caroline Fraser. It was an act of theft, though it certainly wasn’t seen so at the time. The "Little House" series encapsulates the "very strange" attitude whites of the era had towards native Americans.