Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
BEMIDJI—On a dreary February afternoon, bright-eyed Sheryl McShane ushered a gaggle of J.W. Smith Elementary students onto her waiting school bus.
"Come on, honey!" she said, smiling, as more and more students climbed aboard. McShane, who has three kids of her own, doled out friendly greetings and slap-on-the-wrist rebukes—"that sucker goes in your pocket or it goes in mine!"—in roughly equal measure as the bus' after-school clamor grew to a crescendo.
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