Parents would think the kids would mess it up or it would be too hard. And nobody from today would make or allow a young child to scrape a moose hide. There are now more efficient ways to make shoes, like factories.
In the text it says, “In no time at all, that soaking moosehide would be stretched out on a branch frame and she would be required to scrape it.” No one from this generation would be scraping moosehide with a bone to make shoes. In this book, Omakayas, the main character, who is 7 years old, was allowed to watch a baby with no supervision for more than 1 hour in the woods! Definitely not the same as today! Young children had more difficult chores. Children were often much more responsible and parents were more trusting. There wasn’t technology, so the kids had to find some other way to entertain themselves. The time period when The Birchbark House takes place was different and harsher.
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