Menominee story

[Rrlapier at AOL.COM]

SHAWANO — The principal at Sacred Heart Catholic School said he did not  
intend to discriminate against a seventh-grader when he kept her from playing 
in  a basketball game after she apparently used the Menominee language in  
class.

Miranda Washinawatok, a seventh-grader at the school, said she was  
reprimanded by a teacher for exchanging phrases used by the Menominee Tribe of  
Indians with two other girls and later was suspended from a Jan. 19 basketball  
game.

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