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The Menominee (/ m ə ˈ n ɑː m ə ˌ n i / ⓘ mə-NAH-mə-NEE; Menominee: omǣqnomenēwak meaning "Menominee People", [2] 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 ...
Menominee (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ə n i / mə-NOM-ə-nee) is a city and the county seat of Menominee County, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. The population was 8,488 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Menominee County. [5] Menominee is the fourth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, and Escanaba.
Website. menominee-nsn.gov. 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. It is the largest Indian reservation east of the Mississippi River. In the Menominee language, it is called Omāēqnomenēw-Otāēskonenan, "Menominee ...
Menominee River. The Menominee River is a river in northwestern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in the United States. It is approximately 116 miles (187 km) long, [4] draining a rural forested area of northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan into Lake Michigan. Its entire course, with that of its tributary, the Brule River ...
Menominee County (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ə n i / mə-NAH-mə-nee) is a county located in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,502. [2] The county seat is Menominee. [3] The county's name comes from an American Indian word meaning "wild rice eater" used to describe a tribe.
Menominee is a highly endangered language, as there are only a handful of fluent speakers left.According to a 1997 report by the Menominee Historic Preservation Office, 39 people spoke Menominee as their first language, all of whom were elderly; 26 spoke it as their second language; and 65 others had learned some of it for the purpose of understanding the language and/or teaching it to others.
December 31, 1974. Designated MSHS. September 17, 1974 [2] The First Street Historic District, also known as the Main Street Historic District, is a commercial historic district in Menominee, Michigan containing over 40 structures spread over a 29 acres (12 ha) area. The district is roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, the north side of Tenth ...
The Interstate Bridge was built in 1929 for $700,000 (equivalent to $5.4 million in 2022 [1]) to carry US 41 over the Menominee River at the state line. [2] This bridge replaced a series of bridges built to connect Marinette, Wisconsin and Menominee, Michigan across the river. The first bridge was built in 1865 with a second built in 1872. [2]