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	Menominee, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Menominee is a city located in Menominee County, Michigan.
		Menominee Township is located to the north of the city.
		Menominee and the neighboring town of Marinette, Wisconsin have a long-running interstate high school football rivalry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menominee,_Michigan (398 words)

	Menominee
		Menominee tradition indicates their original homeland was farther north near Sault Ste.
		Menominee warriors fought at Fort Duquesne, Fort Oswego, Fort William Henry, and in the defense of Quebec.
		Besides the Menominee, the conference was attended by the Ojibwe, Fox, Sauk, Iowa, Sioux, Winnebago, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.
	www.dickshovel.com /men.html (6089 words)

	Great Lakes Intertribal Council, Inc.: Tribes: Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Menominee Nation once occupied nine and one half million acres of land which is now central and mid-eastern Wisconsin and part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
		The present Menominee Reservation was established in 1854 in a treaty with the United States Government, leaving the tribe with only 234,000 acres of land.
		The College of the Menominee Nation was chartered by the Menominee Tribal Legislature in January, 1993.
	www.glitc.org /tribes/menominee/default.php (265 words)

	Seeing The Light - Menominee North Pier Light
		Menominee continued to grow as a lumber port, and with the establishment of a post office in 1863 and the arrival of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1871, the town was really on the map.
		While the Range was considerably closer to the Menominee harbor, the presence of ore docks in Escanaba since 1863, and the pre-existing infrastructure to handle the ore weighed heavily in the decision to bypass Menominee as the ore shipping point for the ore being excavated at the Range.
		The town of Menominee continued to reap the benefits of the Range, and as a result significant harbor improvements were undertaken in the 1920's, At their completion in 1927, a prefabricated octagonal cast iron tower was delivered by vessel, and lowered onto the pier.
	www.terrypepper.com /lights/michigan/menominee/menominee.htm (955 words)

	Chief Menominee, History - Marshall County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He states that Menominee professed to have been called by the Great Spirit to preach to the Indians to forsake their evil practices, among which he enumerated drunkenness, theft and murder.
		Menominee kept account of the number of sermons he had preached by cutting notches in a stick.
		Chief Menominee died in the Sugar Creek Mission in Lynn County, Kansas in 1841 at the age of 50.
	www.blueberrycountry.org /attractions/chiefmhistory.html (388 words)

	Menominee Termination and Restoration - Indian Country Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Menominee were not comfortable with the idea, but they had recently won a case against the government for mismanagement of their forestry enterprises, and the $8.5 million award was tied to their proposed termination.
		Menominee County was the poorest and least populated in Wisconsin, and it lacked the tax base needed to provide basic services such as police, waste disposal, and firefighting.
		Each Menominee was a shareholder in MEI, and although it did well in the early years of termination, the financial crisis into which Menominee County was born quickly ate up the meager profits and stockholder dividends of MEI.
	www.mpm.edu /wirp/ICW-97.html (2036 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Menominee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Menominee Indians, an Algonquian-speaking woodland tribe, reside on the Menominee Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin.
		Termination was accelerated when the Menominee requested a per capita payment of one thousand dollars toward the amount owed to them as a result of their forest-mismanagement suit.
		The Menominee welcome visitors but are careful to inform them that hunting, fishing, the harvesting of plants, and access to the forest are the exclusive rights of the Menominee people.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_022000_menominee.htm (1282 words)

	Facts for Kids: Menominee Indians (Menominees)
		We encourage students, especially older kids, to look through our Menominee language and culture pages for more in-depth information about the tribe, but here are some straightforward answers to the questions we are most often asked by children, with Menominee pictures and links we believe are especially suitable for all ages.
		Menominee women wore their hair long, but men, especially warriors, often cut theirs in the Mohawk style or shaved their heads completely except for a scalplock (one long lock of hair on top of their heads).
		Menominee artists are known for their weaving, quill embroidery, pottery, and floral beadwork.
	www.geocities.com /bigorrin/menominee_kids.htm (1285 words)

	MTN - Menominee
		While Crabb acknowledged the Menominee treaty signers may have been misled about the treaty language, she claimed that the language denied Menominee rights once the off-reservation land was sold to settlers.The tribe is appealing the decision.
		The Menominee had claimed in a lawsuit in January 1995 that they had given up their land in the treaties, but not the right to use it for hunting, fishing and gathering.
		Menominee Tribal Chairman John Teller said the Tribal Legislature will review the opinion and ''will be exploring all legal options.'' The tribe's lawyers didn't return calls to ask if they would appeal the decision to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/men-rite.html (1617 words)

	AllRefer.com - Menominee, indigenous people of North America (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Although some of the Menominee supported the British in the American Revolution and the War of 1812, they were generally peaceful toward the American settlers.
		The Menominee were, however, bitter enemies of the neighboring Algonquian tribes, who waged constant warfare to drive the Menominee out of the rich wild-rice area.
		In 1854 the Menominee were settled on a reservation (Menominee Reservation) on the Wolf River, in N central Wisconsin.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Menomin-peo.html (362 words)

	The Menominee Clans Story: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Menominee culture developed the clan system as a means to address vital issues that the tribe faced.
		Frechette is one of the few Menominee who still labors in the traditional forms and who also has knowledge of the ancient clan system.
		The Little Menominee clan carvings symbolize individual aspects of all human life, showing that harmony can be achieved by seeing the complexity and significance of a system devised by the Menominee to help guide their lives.
	library.uwsp.edu /menomineeclans/index.htm (671 words)

	Great Lakes Areas of Concern: Maumee River
		The Menominee River Area of Concern (AOC) includes the lower 4.8 km of the river from the Upper Scott Paper Company (Wisconsin) Dam to the river's mouth and approximately 5 km north and south of the mouth along the adjacent shoreline of Green Bay.
		The Menominee River was sampled in 1993-1995 as part of the tributary monitoring portion of the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Modeling project.
		The City of Menominee is in compliance with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit combined sewer overflow (CSO) separation schedule, and with the 1990 Consent Agreement with the U.S. EPA for corrective action on its CSO/wet weather discharges at outfall #8 was eliminated in 1992.
	www.epa.gov /glnpo/aoc/menominee.html (2612 words)

	Menominee language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Menominee is a highly (Click link for more info and facts about endangered language) endangered language, with only a handful of elderly speakers left.
		This designation for them is also used by their Algonquian neighbors to the north - the Anishnaabe ((A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior) Ojibwa).
		For good sources of information on both the Menominee and their language, some valuable resources include (United States linguist who adopted a behavioristic approach to linguistics (1887-1949)) Leonard Bloomfield's 1928 bilingual text collection, his 1962 grammar (a landmark in its own right), and Skinner's earlier anthropological work.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/menominee_language.htm (191 words)

	Menominee Culture - Indian Country Wisconsin
		The Menominee, who speak a language of the Algonkian language family, are the only present-day tribe in Wisconsin whose origin story indicates they have always lived in the state.
		During the 1700s, the Menominee were involved in a number of intertribal and European wars which both weakened their populations and provided them with strong allies.
		While traditional Menominee religion remained strong in some communities such as Zoar, the Peyote religion was also introduced in 1914 by a Potawatomi missionary and the Warrior's Dance or Brave Dance-a Menominee tradition which had fallen out of use-was reintroduced in 1925 from the Ojibwe.
	www.mpm.edu /wirp/ICW-54.html (2548 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Menominee Indians
		The Menominee mission grew and flourished until the outbreak of the long war inaugurated by the Foxes against the French (1712), which continued some thirty years, and resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Fox tribe and the ruin of the Wisconsin missions.
		Physically the Menominee are among the finest of the native tribes of America, being well formed, straight, and of a rathe rlight complexion, with manly, intelligent, and mild expression.
		Father Engelhardt is also the author of a collection of Menominee translations of the Gospel, a volume of sermons and instructions, an extended vocabulary and several linguistic treatises on the language, all still in manuscript.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10192a.htm (1544 words)

	98-3 Menominee County [WI]
		Most of its land is tax-exempt because it is held in federal trust for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, whose reservation includes the county and the Town of Menominee.
		The Menominee County Highway Department has inadequate facilities and equipment to provide road maintenance, and many of the town roads in the densely populated lakes area are not paved.
		Menominee county's poverty rate was 48.7 percent in 1994, compared to 10.7 percent statewide.
	www.legis.state.wi.us /lab/reports/98-3tear.htm (1044 words)

	Who were the Menominee Indians?
		The Menominee Indians were one of the original tribes of Wisconsin and the Upper Michigan areas.
		The land of the Menominee was not suitable for the growing of crops.
		The Menominee were able to keep their native religion Meanwhile contact with the French grew by means of the fur trade.
	riri.essortment.com /menominenative_rmrt.htm (767 words)

	Encyclopedia: Menominee River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Menominee River is a river in northwestern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in the United States.
		It enters the Green Bay on Lake Michigan from the north between Marinette, Wisconsin and Menominee, Michigan.
		The name of the river comes from the name of a Algonquin language term meaning "wild rice," or "in the place of wild rice," named for the Menominee tribe who lived in the area and subsisted on the plant.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Menominee-River (239 words)

	Menominee Language and the Menominee Indian Tribe (Menomini, Mamaceqtaw)
		Language: The Algonquian language Menominee (or Menomini) is today spoken by only a few tribal elders in Wisconsin, though some younger Menominees hope to revive the language.
		Original inhabitants of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, the Menominee were traditional enemies of the Fox (Mesquakie).
		Of all the surviving Native American peoples in Wisconsin, the Menominee and the Winnebago are the only ones who claim to be original to that area: the Fox and Sauk, Dakota, Illinois, and even Cheyenne migrated into the region from elsewhere, and the Menominee, never a large tribe, couldn't do much to stop it.
	www.native-languages.org /menominee.htm (503 words)

	Menominee Prosopium cylindraceum
		The menominee, or round whitefish, although unfamiliar to many anglers, is native to all the Great Lakes except Lake Erie.
		Young menominee grow quickly: adults reach a maximum size of about 22 inches in length and five pounds in weight.
		Menominee are bottom feeders: they live on small clams, snails, insect larvae (especially mayfly) and fish eggs.
	www.michigan.gov /dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45683--,00.html (245 words)

	Menominee County, Wisconsin ~ WIGenWeb
		Menominee County, Wisconsin, was created in 1961 from the Menominee Indian Reservation.
		Current enrollment of the federally recognized Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is close to 7,200 —3,400 of whom live on their reservation just west of Green Bay.
		The saw mill could not provide enough tax base to pay for all of the services a county government was required to provide, and the Menominee instantly went from being one of the most self-sufficient tribes in the United States to the lowest standard of living in Wisconsin.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wimenomi (501 words)

	S.S. Menominee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Built by A. Stephen & Sons of Glasgow, she was launched in 1897 and made her maiden voyage from Glasgow to New York on 8 October 1897.
		She was sold to Atlantic Transport Line in 1908 and made one London-New York roundtrip for ATL under her old name before being renamed Menominee.
		Menominee was taken over as a British transport in 1915, and returned to ATL service as a cargo carrier in 1920.
	www.greatships.net /menominee.html (166 words)

	Menominee
		Here are the first of the Menominee area photos that I've scanned.....
		This is looking south along 1st Street in Menominee, just prior to starting a widening project.
		The fire was in Menominee, Michigan and I took this photo from the Ansul Company's dock across the river in Marinette, Wisconsin.
	members.cox.net /ted-ellis/menominee.htm (489 words)

	ShawanoLeader.com -Archives
		Middle Village is a Menominee Tribal housing development in northern Shawano County.
		Shawano and Menominee county officials, as well as leaders of the Menominee Tribe, seemed anxious Thursday to bring up the proposal again, but this time have it become law.
		Marianne Pender, president of the Menominee County Taxpayers Association said she and other members of her group are open to discussing the annexation, but their biggest concern was "the added cost to the county."
	www.shawanoleader.com /articles/2005/02/05/news/news1.txt (428 words)

	Menominee Delta Schoolcraft
		Residents of Menominee, Delta and Schoolcraft Counties can be assured that as community needs change, our agency will continue to evolve to respond to local needs.
		The mission of each of the Senior Centers is to provide a facility where older persons can come together for services and activities that enhance their dignity, support their independence and encourage their involvement in and with the community.
		Neighborhood Service Centers in Menominee, Delta, and Schoolcraft Counties are fulfilling the Community Action Agency's mission of enhancing the lives of lowincome and elderly people by helping them to become more self-sufficient.
	www.mcaaa.org /directory/mdscaa.htm (2525 words)

	Menominee Casino-Bingo-Hotel
		Whether it's the whirl of the spinning slots, the intensity of a fljack game, or the exhilaration of yelling "Bingo", the Menominee Casino-Bingo-Hotel is the perfect place to release your playful spirit.
		At the Menominee Casino-Bingo-Hotel, time is yours to do with as you please.
		The Menominee Casino Bingo Hotel is found within the beautiful woodlands of Northeastern Wisconsin.
	www.menomineecasinoresort.com (141 words)

	The Bed & Breakfast Inns of Menominee, MI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This town is a gem located at the southern point of the scenic U.P. Nestled in pines, this beautiful area hosts many different types of wildlife and is hidden convienently on Highway 41 about 45 miles from Iron Mountain.
		"Come to Menominee and do nothing." Everyone is in such a state these days of go, go, go.....here you can just enjoy the water, contemplate your life, read a good book, create pictures in the sand, stroll along the bay or drop a line in the river.
		People are friendly, there are unique restaurants, concerts in the park during July and August (on Thursdays)....time has stood still in some spaces and that's what we all need to do....stand still and dream dreams.....come to Menominee and do nothing.
	www.go-native.com /Michigan/MI.Menominee.shtml (157 words)

	Native Americans: Menominee History and Culture
		As a complement to our Menominee language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Menominee people and various aspects of their society.
		Menominee history is interesting and important, but the Menominee are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary artwork as well as archaeology exhibits, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
		Menominee tribal college and the CMN Cultural Institute.
	www.native-languages.org /menominee_culture.htm (311 words)

	Menominee Saw
		Menominee Saw and Supply Company Inc., offers a full line of equipment and supplies - from the wood yard to the lumber yard - to a worldwide customer base of sawmill operators.
		For more than 100 years we have helped our valued customers transition from bucksaws to select band and circular saws, filing room tools and general sawmill supplies.
		Placing an order with Menominee Saw means getting a prompt response, technical assistance when necessary and timely shipment of orders at competitive prices.
	www.menomineesaw.com (206 words)

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