The last fluent speaker of the Mohican language died nearly a century ago, but Brock Schreiber of Bowler is trying to find ways to revive the Indigenous language.
A citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, he said some people still know words and phrases of the language on the reservation in and around Bowler where about 500 of the tribe’s 1,500 citizens live.
“The more I learn (the language), the more I understand how important it is,” Schreiber said. “In conversations with Menominee p...