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Menominee is a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.The population was 248 at the 2010 census, up from 237 in 2000. The village is located on the Little Menominee River near East Dubuque and Galena.
Menominee Township is one of 23 townships in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,122 and it contained 419 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,122 and it contained 419 housing units.
The Menominee River is an 11.3-mile-long (18.2 km) [1] tributary of the Mississippi River, which it joins in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. [ 2 ] The name "Menominee" refers to the Menominee , a Native American people.
The Menominee (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ n i / ⓘ mə-NOM-in-ee; 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 the ...
Menominee – Named after the Menominee Indian tribe. Menominee River; Little Menominee River; Merrimac – name taken from the nearby Meramec River whose name was translated as 'Ugly Water' from Algonquian by French Jesuits in the area. However, scholars of the language translate it as 'place of strong current.'
The Little Menominee River is a 13.9-mile-long (22.4 km) [1] tributary of the Upper Mississippi River, which it joins in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. [2] The Little Menominee rises in Grant County, Wisconsin. It flows south, to the east of the Menominee River, into Illinois.
[17] [18] [19] Chief Menominee and seventeen of the Yellow River band refused to take part in the negotiations and did not recognize the treaty's authority over their land. In a petition dated November 4, 1837, Chief Menominee and other Potawatomi submitted a formal protest to General John Tipton. The chiefs claimed that their signatures on the ...
Menominee River; Gulf of St. Lawrence. Lake Michigan. ... Fox River (Illinois River tributary), northern Illinois; Fox River (Little Wabash tributary), southern ...