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The Menominee Indian Reservation technically consists of both a 360.8 sq mi (934.5 km 2) Indian reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin and an adjacent 1.96 sq mi (5.08 km 2) plot of off-reservation trust land encompassing Middle Village in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. These areas are governed as a single unit for ...
Menominee Casino Resort: Keshena: Menominee: Wisconsin: Land-based: Owned by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin: Mole Lake Casino & Lodge: Mole Lake: Forest: Wisconsin: Land-based: Owned by the Sokaogon Chippewa Community: North Star Mohican Casino Resort: Bowler: Shawano: Wisconsin: Land-based: Owned by the Stockbridge–Munsee Community ...
The reservation land was set aside for the Bad River Lapointe Band in the Treaty of La Pointe, made with the United States and signed on Madeline Island on September 30, 1854. The treaty land included almost 2,000 acres (3.1 sq mi; 8.1 km 2 ) on Madeline Island, which is considered the center of the Ojibwe Nation.
The Menominee Tribe is staging a media event in the Capitol Tuesday as it continues its effort to win approval to build a tribal casino in Kenosha. ... The Menominee's last attempt to a casino in ...
In 1994, the Menominee became the first forest management enterprise in the United States certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC.org). [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Since June 5, 1987, the tribe has owned and operated a Las Vegas -style gaming casino , associated with bingo games and a hotel .
Federally recognized reservations. There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías.
The combined reservation and off-reservation trust land have a total area of 27.25 sq mi (70.6 km 2), of which 27.2 sq mi (70 km 2) is land and 0.05 sq mi (0.13 km 2) is water. [ 2 ] As of the census of 2020 , [ 11 ] the combined population of Stockbridge Munsee Community and Off-Reservation Trust Land was 733.
Keshena (Menominee: Kesīqnæh) [4] is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. [5] Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, it had a population of 1,257 at the 2020 census. [2] Keshena was named for an Indian chief; the Menominee name is Kesīqnaeh which means "Swift Flying". [6] [7]