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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 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In 1973, Congress repealed termination and restored federal recognition of the Menominee tribe. [68] The Menominee Restoration Act was signed by Richard Nixon; it repealed the Menominee Indian Termination Act, reopened the tribal rolls, re-established the trust status and provided for the reformation of tribal government.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]
Due to her advocacy, on December 22, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Menominee Restoration Act. [12] [8] This legislation restored official federal recognition to the Menominee tribe. Because of her active participation in changing the legislation, Ada Deer was the first woman to chair the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin. [8]
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 ...
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Lacey Act of 1907; Major Crimes Act; Menominee Restoration Act; Meriam Report; Mission Indian Act of 1891; Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996; Nelson Act of 1889; Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act; Public Law 280; Title 25 of the United States Code; Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010; Western Shoshone Claims ...
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 ...