Shame on you! I know you think it is a harmless and fun thing to tell an Indian curse story on Halloween (Sun Journal article, Oct. 31). But Molly Ockett was a real person who helped many early settlers to survive. Honoring her is very important to many real people living today.

It is irresponsible to publish this old curse story with all its historical and cultural inaccuracies. You are promoting old stereotypes that are hurtful to real people living today. It is even more irresponsible to add your own inaccurate details. This only serves to increase the misunderstandings that exist between the cultures. She is not an old injun that lived a long time ago and nobody cares about. She should not be fair game for fiction writers. Her name was Marie Agathe, she belongs to the Abenaki people and their mixed blood descendants, and she deserves the respect of both cultures.

Nancy Lecompte, Lewiston