Attending Family Reunion Festival as a child exposed Ragan Marsee to Bodéwadmimwen for the first time, which inspired her to connect with her Potawatomi culture and language. Today, she serves in the CPN Language Department as an aid, teaching students Bodéwadmimwen.
After the October 2019 Higbee cousins meeting, they gathered at the Cultural Heritage Center where head of the family, John Dragoo, unveiled a quilt handed down through the family for decades that features an in-depth family tree.