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Chief Oshkosh's tribe
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menominee
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Population (2000): 237 Housing Units (2000): 81 Land area (2000): 1.924870 sq. miles (4.985391 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.924870 sq. miles (4.985391 sq. km) FIPS code: 48359 Located within: Illinois ...
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There have been several ships named Menominee a 1967-built bulk carrier later known as Kathryn Spirit the former US Navy harbour tug USS Menominee (YTB-790) of 1964 the US Navy Valiant-class tugboat USS Menominee (YTB-807) of 2011
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Menomini , Algonquian people of Wisconsin, from Ojibwa (Algonquian) Manoominii , literally "wild rice people," from manoomin "wild rice." Not their name for themselves.
Usage examples of menominee.
Because Johnny wanted to look over the district from the air they flew south past Chambers Island in Green Bay, almost to Menominee, then turned north again.
Indian Agent at the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin knows this: from the time Billie Freschette returned there until her death in 1968, she received mysterious monthly checks from Switzerland.
Lake Winnebago, to tribes around Lake Mendota, and finally, early in the nineteenth century, to one Solomon Juneau, a Frenchman, at the new trading post of Milwaukee on the Menominee River and the shore of Lake Michigan.
Trickster decided to pay his respects to the Menominee in Milwaukee and make sure they made room for him in their part of the parade.
The medicine woman of the Menominee was an elder in her seventies who invited Trickster into her house immediately, promptly cuffed the little rogue on the back of the neck, and offered him tobacco.
Almost every shade, from the ash-color of the Menominees through the cinnamon-red, copper, and bronze tints, may be found among the tribes formerly occupying the territory cast of the Mississippi, until we reach the dark-skinned Kaws of Kansas, who are nearly as black as the negro.
Most of them were closed and boarded up, but at Menominee, the last town before I crossed into Wisconsin, I passed one that was open and impulsively I turned the car around and went back to it.