There are less than 20 fluent speakers of the Menominee language, and throughout his life, Ron Corn has taught the language to others. Ron’s devotion to saving the language is so strong that he made the difficult and family changing decision to quit his full-time job where he taught Menominee language in order to spend more time raising his youngest daughter, Mimikwaeh, with the language through immersion. He hopes that she will be the first child in over a generation whose first language is Menominee and not English.
This story is part of “The Ways,” an ongoing series on culture and language from Native communities around the central Great Lakes.
