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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.
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 ...
In 1973, Congress repealed termination and restored federal recognition of the Menominee tribe. [68] The Menominee Restoration Act was signed by Richard Nixon; it repealed the Menominee Indian Termination Act, reopened the tribal rolls, re-established the trust status and provided for the reformation of tribal government.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]
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Though it took a prodigious amount of work, the Menominee Restoration Act moved through Congress with rare speed. In April 1975, MEI was dissolved and all Menominee lands were transferred back to the tribe, to be held in trust by the United States of America and governed by the sovereign Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.
The legislation, titled the 'American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017,' was proposed on January 3. A bill has already been introduced in Congress to remove the US from the United Nations Skip ...
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Nixon believed that tribes likely could do better than a distant government agency in managing affairs of their people and serving them. On December 22, 1973, Nixon privately signed the Menominee Restoration Act, which returned Menominee Indians to full federally recognized tribal status, returning their land assets to trust status. Nixon might ...