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I heard that's allowed in some countries. In theory, I can understand the school board's perspective. As a Native person, would I want somebody working at Indian Affairs Canada who didn't believe in Ojibways? It's a difficult position.
Trust me, banning or restricting books makes them more desirable. I know. It was in the mid 1970s when I went behind the counter and obtained secret peeks at Marion Engel's Bear and Tales from the Smokehouse. All the good reads were back there. It's like the VIP room for books. Chicks always dig the bad boy, well, readers always dig the bad books (by bad I mean evil, not poorly written), going all the way back to banned classics like Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye.I sure wish somebody would pull some of my books. I could use the money. I recently had my first novel, aimed at teens, published. It's called The Night Wanderer. It's about an Ojibway vampire. An atheist Ojibway vampire. If some school board out there would like to read it, I'd be very interested in talking about a possible ban. While I'm not an atheist, I am a BAP (Born again Pagan). That must be almost as bad.See the full content of this document
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Ban Me! The Fringe Benefits of Censorship
A month or so ago, the Catholic School Board in Halton Region pulled The Golden Compass, a children's novel written by Philip Pulman, from the shelves. Supposedly not because of anything in it, but because the man who wrote it is an avowed ...
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