Menominee
noun
Me·nom·i·nee
mə-ˈnä-mə-nē 
variants
or less commonly Menomini
1
plural Menominee or Menominees also Menomini or Menominis
: a member of an Indigenous people of northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula
2
: the Algonquian language of the Menominee people
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Michigan wildlife managers, along with their counterparts in Wisconsin, are proposing to add a catch and immediate release season for lake sturgeon on the Menominee River.
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Language revitalization is going to happen regardless of what the president does, as Menominee and all Indigenous peoples continue to reclaim their languages, identities and cultures, Corn said.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The team mapped an area that has cultural and historical importance to the Menominee.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
The ancestral Menominee community that built the agricultural system uncovered by this new research, however, seems to have been less populous and hierarchical than a place like Cahokia, showing that large-scale agriculture may have been a part of life in very different kinds of societies.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 June 2025
Ehlert is one of about 20 College of Menominee Nation students who rely on scholarships funded through a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Language revitalization is going to happen regardless of what the president does, as Menominee and all Indigenous peoples continue to reclaim their languages, identities and cultures, Corn said.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The team mapped an area that has cultural and historical importance to the Menominee.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
The ancestral Menominee community that built the agricultural system uncovered by this new research, however, seems to have been less populous and hierarchical than a place like Cahokia, showing that large-scale agriculture may have been a part of life in very different kinds of societies.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 June 2025
Ehlert is one of about 20 College of Menominee Nation students who rely on scholarships funded through a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
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Menominee
geographical name
Me·nom·i·nee
mə-ˈnä-mə-nē
river 125 miles (201 kilometers) long in northeastern Wisconsin flowing southeast on the Michigan–Wisconsin border into Green Bay
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