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menominee-nsn.gov The Menominee Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in northeastern Wisconsin held in trust by the United States for the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin. It is the largest Indian reservation east of the Mississippi River .
The Menominee (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ n i / ⓘ mə-NOM-in-ee; Menominee: omǣqnomenēwak meaning "Menominee People", [2] also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People"; known as Mamaceqtaw, "the people", in the Menominee language) are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans officially known as the ...
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.
Alaqua Cox, the Menominee Nation actress from Wisconsin who starred alongside Jeremy Renner in the Marvel series “Hawkeye” on Disney+, has her own spinoff series, "Echo," being released ...
Menominee is a highly endangered language, as there are only a handful of fluent speakers left.According to a 1997 report by the Menominee Historic Preservation Office, 39 people spoke Menominee as their first language, all of whom were elderly; 26 spoke it as their second language; and 65 others had learned some of it for the purpose of understanding the language and/or teaching it to others.
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 Michigan. During the ratification of the treaty in June 1832, the United States Senate modified the treaty to provide additional land for the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe .
The Treaty of the Cedars was an 1836 agreement between the Menominee Indian nation and the United States in which the Menominee ceded to the United States about 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km 2) of land for $700,000. The agreement opened that huge tract of forest to logging and White settlement.
The Menominee tribe in Wisconsin operates the Menominee Forest which covers 217,000 acres of land, and promotes sustainable forest management. [75] For more than 150 years, the Menominee tribe has been utilizing techniques such as silviculture , even and uneven-aged management, tree grouping, and conservation .