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Restoration came about as a result of years of poor social and economic conditions that followed the Menominee Termination Act of 1954. Following termination, all Menominee tribal property was transferred to a new corporation, Menominee Enterprises, Inc. (MEI) and the reservation became a new county for Wisconsin: Menominee County. The least ...
The state still maintains jurisdiction over crimes on the reservation when neither the perpetrator nor the victim is a tribal member. [14] [15] Federal recognition of the Menominee tribe was terminated by the United States Congress in 1961. The Menominee Indian Reservation was reestablished in 1973. [16]
In 1973, Congress repealed termination and restored federal recognition of the Menominee tribe. [68] The Menominee Restoration Act was signed by Richard Nixon; it repealed the Menominee Indian Termination Act, reopened the tribal rolls, re-established the trust status and provided for the reformation of tribal government. [69]
The leader of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Kristen Clarke, said in an extraordinary personal statement shared with CNN that she was a victim of years-long domestic abuse and ...
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused Warren Beatty of coercing a teenage girl into sex in 1973, after the plaintiff’s attorney backed out of the case. Kristina Charlotte Hirsch filed ...
The Menominee Restoration Act moved quickly through Congress, and President Richard Nixon signed it into law December 1973. In 1975, the restoration was complete when Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton held a ceremony in which he signed the documents that dissolved Menominee Enterprises, Incorporated. He gave all Menominee lands back to ...
Dahmer would lure victims back to his apartment to give them drug-laced drinks and sexually assault them once they died. He would also dismember their bodies and keep "souvenirs" like body parts ...
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws.