During that period, they brought what has become a landmark case in Indian law to the United States Supreme Court, in Menominee Tribe v. The tribe currently has about 8,700 members.įederal recognition of the tribe was terminated in the 1960s under policy of the time which stressed assimilation.
Their historic territory originally included an estimated 10 million acres (40,000 km 2) in present-day Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Their land base is the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. The Menominee ( / m ə ˈ n ɑː m ə ˌ n i/ Menominee: omǣqnomenēwak meaning 'Menominee People', 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 Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. The map's title text, Omaeqnomenew-ahkew, means 'Land of the Wild Rice People' in the Menominee language.
Catholic, Big Drum, Native American ChurchĬlaims of the Menominee Nation as described in the Treaty of Washington of 1831.
