Menominee Indian Reservation

Tribal headquarters

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.

For the most part it is conterminous with Menominee County, Wisconsin and the town of Menominee. Many small pockets of territory within the county (and its geographically equivalent town) are not considered to be part of the reservation. These pockets amount to a fairly small 1.14 percent of the county's area; the reservation takes up about 98.86 percent of the county's area. The largest of these pockets is in the western part of the community of Keshena. A section of the reservation is located in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin.^[1] The reservation has a plot of off-reservation trust land of 10.22 acres in Winnebago County to the south, west of the city of Oshkosh. The reservation's total land area is 353.894 sq mi (916.581 km²), while Menominee County's land area is 357.960 sq mi (927.111 km²).

The non-reservation parts of the county are more densely populated than the reservation, with 1,337 (29.3%) of the county's 4,562 total population, as opposed to the reservation's 3,225 (70.7%) population in the 2000 census.^[2] (The plot of land in Winnebago County is unpopulated.) The most populous communities are Legend Lake and Keshena. The Menominee operate a number of gambling facilities. They speak English as well as the Menominee language, part of the Algonquian language family.^[3]

Communities

• Keshena (most, population 1,168)
• Legend Lake (most, population 853)
• Middle Village (part, population 35)
• Neopit (most, population 637)
• Zoar (most, population 106)

Education

The Menominee founded the College of the Menominee Nation, a tribal college, in 1993. It was accredited in 1998. The main campus is in Keshena.

Casinos

The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) approved plans of the Menominee Nation to build a casino at the former Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin.^[4]

References

• Tiller, Veronica. Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations. Bowarrow Publishing Company, 1996. ISBN 1-885931-01-8
• Menominee Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Wisconsin United States Census Bureau

External links

• The Menominee Indian Tribe official website
• Information on treaties between the United States and the Menominee
• "Menominee Termination and Restoration" from the Milwaukee Public Museum

Municipalities and communities of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States County seat: Keshena Town Menominee CDPs Keshena Legend Lake Middle Village‡ Neopit Zoar Unincorporated community Keshena Falls Indian reservation Menominee Indian Reservation‡ Ghost town Perote Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Municipalities and communities of Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States County seat: Shawano Cities Marion‡ Shawano Villages Aniwa Birnamwood‡ Bonduel Bowler Cecil Eland Gresham Mattoon Pulaski‡ Tigerton Wittenberg Towns Almon Angelica Aniwa Bartelme Belle Plaine Birnamwood Fairbanks Germania Grant Green Valley Hartland Herman Hutchins Lessor Maple Grove Morris Navarino Pella Red Springs Richmond Seneca Washington Waukechon Wescott Wittenberg CDPs Angelica Caroline Green Valley Krakow‡ Leopolis Middle Village‡ Navarino Pella Pulcifer Thornton Tilleda Unincorporated communities Adams Beach Advance Almon Belle Plaine Briarton Five Corners Frazer Corners Hofa Park Hunting‡ Landstad Laney Lunds Lyndhurst Morgan Pittsfield‡ Red River Regina Rose Lawn Shepley Slab City Split Rock Whitcomb Zachow Indian reservations Menominee Indian Reservation‡ Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Reservation Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 45°00′19″N 88°42′41″W / 45.00528°N 88.71139°W / 45.00528; -88.71139