Menominee Indian Reservation

Tribal headquarters

The Menominee Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in northeastern Wisconsin for the Menominee.

For the most part it is conterminous with Menominee County and the town of Menominee. However, there are many small pockets of territory within the county (and its geographically equivalent town) that are not considered to be part of the reservation. These pockets amount to a fairly small 1.14 percent of the county's area, so that, essentially, the reservation is only about 98.86 percent of the county's area. The largest of these pockets is in the western part of the community of Keshena. Furthermore, 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 actually much 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.^[1] (The plot of land in Winnebago County is unpopulated.) The most populous communities are Legend Lake and Keshena. They operate a number of gambling facilities and speak the Menominee language.^[2]

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 College of the Menominee Nation is the tribal college. The main campus is in Keshena.

References

1. ^ Menominee Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Wisconsin United States Census Bureau
2. ^ Menominee Language and the Menominee Indian Tribe (Menomini, Mamaceqtaw)

• 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

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