"The Education of Little Tree," authored by Asa Carter (an ex-Ku Klux Klansman), was too eagerly embraced by classroom teachers. The book was as digestible as instant pudding for youngsters reared on televised versions of Indian life. A continued diet of "feel-good" New Age pseudocultural pap will produce a generation of ethnocentric ignoramuses ill-prepared to deal with real-world complexities. (MLH)