• Student Suspended for Speaking Native American Language
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[quote] After a 12-year-old Menominee student spoke her [URL="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/native-american-language"]Native language[/URL] during class, she was suspended from playing in that night’s [URL="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/native-american-basketball"]basketball[/URL] game, and memories of past [URL="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/11/03/an-ojibwe-woman-embraces-forgiveness-for-her-mother-a-boarding-school-survivor-61336"]boarding school[/URL] atrocities surfaced. Miranda Washinawatok attends Sacred Heart Catholic Academy in Shawano, Wisconsin. According to [URL="http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/menominee-seventh-grader-suspended-for-saying-i-love-you-in-her-native-language.html"]Native News Network[/URL], the school is more than 60 percent [URL="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/"]Native American[/URL] and is about six miles from the Menominee Indian Tribe Reservation. When Miranda was teaching a classmate to say “[I]posoh[/I]” and “[I]ketapanen[/I]” on January 19, her teacher scolded her. Native News Network reported her saying “You are not to speak like that! How do I know you’re not saying something bad? How would you like it if I spoke in Polish and you didn’t understand?” The words Miranda was chastised for translate to “hello” and “I love you” in Menominee. “Miranda kept saying she was only told by her assistant coach she was being benched because two teachers said she had a bad attitude,” Tanaes Washinawatok, Miranda’s mother, told Native News Network. “I wanted to know what she did to make them say she had a bad attitude.” There is dispute over who actually did the suspending, but the school has admitted it “failed miserably in its handling of the matter.” Deacon Ray DuBois, the communication director for the Diocese of Green Bay, which operates the school, also told Native News Network that the school does not prohibit the use of any language and that “the number one priority is to help this girl.” Miranda isn’t a troublemaker. Her mother told Native News that she is mature and respectful. Miranda plays basketball and is the team captain of a volleyball team. “When it comes to Native language, Miranda should be proud she learned and can speak her Native language,” wrote Levi Rickert in a February 4 post on [URL="http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/on-native-language-contrast-between-code-talkers-and-suspended-basketball-player.html"]Native News Network[/URL]. Tara McGregor, a commenter at [URL="http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/meeting-set-to-discuss-healing-of-menominee-student-suspended-for-speaking-native-language.html"]Nativenewsnetwork.com[/URL], says “As a teacher you have a responsibility to be culturally aware of your students and encourage diversity. This is a reminder to all of us that this type of oppression still exists. I hope that this example of ignorance is not forgotten, and we continue to move forward while creating a world that fosters children who embrace their heritage.” [URL="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/04/26/what-constitutes-notability-in-wikipedia-twice-deleted-native-american-journalists-association-wants-to-know-30258"]Rhonda LeValdo[/URL], of the Acoma Pueblo and president of the Native American Journalists Association, wrote a piece for [URL="http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/indian-country-stands-with-menominee-seventh-grader.html"]Native Connection[/URL] stating Indian country’s support for Miranda. She says: “All Americans need to know about the boarding schools. They need to know how the language was beaten out of many of our elders, so much that their children never learned the language for that fear of them being hurt. This all happened in this country and so many deny the abuses, but it happened.”[/quote] [url]http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/07/student-suspended-for-speaking-native-american-language-96340[/url]
February 7, 2012 Been posted before I think
God, what a dumbass teacher. At least the administration admits that this shouldn't have happened.
Let them speak their language anyways, it's dying out anyways. Might as well let them speak it for a few more decades.
We can't even speak our shitty post boarding school recovery attempt language?
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;35414888]February 7, 2012 Been posted before I think[/QUOTE] Damn, didn't notice to date on it. A facebook friend shared it today, thought it was new news.
[quote]“You are not to speak like that! How do I know you’re not saying something bad? How would you like it if I spoke in Polish and you didn’t understand?”[/quote] What a bitch. She probably can't even stand to see people whispering, she has to know every single word that comes out of someone's mouth. She must be extremely insecure. "Oh my god I don't know what she's saying! SHE'S PROBABLY INSULTING ME!"
The reasoning is sound, she could be teaching them Bad Words... but suspension? That is too much. The should have brought someone in who knew the language to confirm.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;35416293]The reasoning is sound, she could be teaching them Bad Words... but suspension? That is too much. The should have brought someone in who knew the language to confirm.[/QUOTE] If you don't like having a kid in your class using a language you don't understand just ask him to keep it to english in your class, and stay polite. Even if you are the teacher and they are your pupils you still owe them basic respect that every human being should have towards another one.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35414954]Let them speak their language anyways, it's dying out anyways. Might as well let them speak it for a few more decades.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure it died a few hundred years ago b
[QUOTE=RunawayLove;35416496]Pretty sure it died a few hundred years ago b[/QUOTE] Well obviously he can still speak it c
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ozJDM.jpg[/IMG] It could happen.
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