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Posted on December 10, 2024 by John Mark Ockerbloom

Laughing Boy, by white anthropologist Oliver La Farge, is about a troubled relationship between two Navajos, one raised traditionally and one sent to a white-run boarding school. The first Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about native Americans, it was later banned by a Long Island school district, in a case that students took all the way to a divided Supreme Court in 1982. Laughing Boy will be free to read without censorship or copyright restrictions in 22 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown

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