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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.
In 1973, Congress repealed termination and restored federal recognition of the Menominee tribe. [68] The Menominee Restoration Act was signed by Richard Nixon ; it repealed the Menominee Indian Termination Act, reopened the tribal rolls, re-established the trust status and provided for the reformation of tribal government.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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Flag of the Haudenosaunee. Self-determination is defined as the movement by which the Native Americans sought to achieve restoration of tribal community, self-government, cultural renewal, reservation development, educational control and equal or controlling input into federal government decisions concerning policies and programs.
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