Joining both prize-winning and banned-books online collections shortly

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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About John Mark Ockerbloom

I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
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