Living Language: Menominee Language Revitalization | The Ways

How can language immersion help preserve the Menominee language?

Ron Corn Jr.’s devotion to saving the Menominee language is so strong that he made the difficult decision to quit his full-time job in order to spend more time raising his youngest daughter, Mimikwaeh, with the language through immersion. Learn how he hopes she will be the first child in over a generation whose first language is Menominee.

This resource is part of The Ways, a collection of educational media resources from PBS Wisconsin Education for middle and high school classrooms. The collection explores connections between traditional ways and those of today and expands and challenges current understanding of Native identity and communities through language and culture stories from First Nations communities around the central Great Lakes.