Topic summary
Menominee people
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Menominee.
The Menominee ( ; 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. Their land base is the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. Their historic territory originally included an estimated 10 million acres (40,000 km) in present-day Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The tribe currently has about 8,700 members.