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The Menominee Indian Reservation technically consists of both a 360.8 sq mi (934.5 km 2) Indian reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin and an adjacent 1.96 sq mi (5.08 km 2) plot of off-reservation trust land encompassing Middle Village in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. These areas are governed as a single unit for ...
The Menominee are part of the Algonquian language family of North America, made up of several tribes now located around the Great Lakes and many other tribes based along the Atlantic coast. They are one of the historical tribes of present-day upper Michigan and Wisconsin; they occupied a territory of about 10 million acres (40,000 km 2 ) in the ...
Chief Oshkosh (also spelled Os-kosh or Oskosh) (c. 1795–August 31, 1858 [a]) was a chief of the Menominee Native Americans, recognized as the leader of the Menominee people by the United States government from August 7, 1827, until his death. He was involved in treaty negotiations as the United States sought to acquire more of the Menominee ...
The Menominee Restoration Act, signed by President of the United States Richard Nixon on December 22, 1973, returned federally recognized sovereignty to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. It also restored tribal supervision over property and members, as well as federal services granted to American Indian tribes.
Language. Bodwéwadmimwen. (Neshnabémwen) The Potawatomi / pɒtəˈwɒtəmi /, [1][2] also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family.
Menominee tribal historians believe the area of Anaem Omot has been home to indigenous settlements for roughly 10,000 years. [3] The area includes a tribal village on the Wisconsin side of the river that was occupied in the 17th through 19th centuries. [4] The designation of Anaem Omot as a historic property was controversial.
The Treaty of Washington (1831) was a treaty between the Menominee (an American Indian tribe) and the United States Government. The treaty was initially made and signed on February 8, 1831 in Washington, D.C. In the treaty, the Menominee ceded about 2,500,000 acres (10,000 km 2; 3,900 sq mi) of their land in Wisconsin primarily adjacent to Lake ...
The Menominee are the only Native American tribe living in Wisconsin today whose origin was in the present-day state. The federally recognized Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin have a reservation on the Wolf River (Fox River tributary). The Menominee believe that they were created at the mouth of the Menominee River when the Ancestral Bear ...