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.
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Questions to consider
What are the challenges to the Menominee language revitalization efforts? How are these challenges being overcome?
View another Ways story: Language Apprentice, the story of Arlene Thunder Blackdeer teaching and learning the Ho-Chunk language. What are the similarities and differences between these stories?
A sense of place
In their words
“The idea that we’re trying to preserve is a living language.”
Ron Corn Jr.
Production credits
Producer
Finn Ryan
Videography
Lukas Korver
Editing
Lukas Korver
Photography
Lukas Korver
Music
Dan Venne
Essay Editing
Sheila Regan
Advisors
David O’ Connor
Aaron Bird Bear
Ryan Comfort
Tyler Blue Tarpalechee
Ben Grignon