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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]
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 ...
Tribal office in Keshena The Menominee Indian Reservation is located in northeastern Wisconsin. For the most part, it is conterminous with Menominee County and the town of Menominee , which were established after termination of the tribe in 1961 under contemporary federal policy whose goal was assimilation.
Menominee County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,255, [1] making it the least populous county in Wisconsin. Its county seat is in the community of Keshena. [2] Menominee is Wisconsin's newest county, having been created in 1959 after recognition of the Menominee tribe was terminated by ...
American Indians represent less than 1% of clinical trial participants in the U.S., but are about 3% of the population. Overcoming distrust of West, one tribe in Wisconsin is partnering with UW ...
Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to argue Thursday that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline that the tribe says is at immediate risk ...
The tribe approved spending six thousand dollars to construct a new building. These changes began a new era in Menominee schooling which would last well into the twentieth century. An increased number of Menominee children attended boarding schools, but most did so on the reservation in Keshena rather than at an off-reservation school. [14]
The signs are the first in an effort to place Indigenous language signs at the entrances for the 11 federally recognized tribal nations in Wisconsin.