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Definition of Menominee

1. Noun. A member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin.

Definition of Menominee

1. Proper noun. A nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin. ¹

2. Proper noun. Their language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Menominee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1880)
"This district now embraces the northern portion of Marathon county, of this state, and in Michigan the country immediately north of the Menominee river. ..."

2. History of Michigan by Charles Moore (1915)
"Mr. Cook is also owner of the Menominee Opera House, a fine place of entertainment, and through his personal efforts have been secured many of the best ..."

3. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Menominee District, Michigan.1—The Menominee district is in Michigan not far ... The rocks in the Menominee district proper are the following: 1 BAYLEY, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"THE Menominee range is one of the four great mining belts that flank the western prongs of Lake Superior. It has received its name from its location along ..."

5. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen (1911)
"Dr. Walter James Hoffman 1 has described it among the Menominee Indians in ... Hoffman 1 The Menominee Indians, Fourteenth Ann. Rep. of the Bureau of ..."

6. A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People: Its Mining by Alvah Littlefield Sawyer (1911)
"The city of Menominee is the county seat and is located in the extreme southerly point of the county where the immense volume of water carried by the ..."

7. History and Review of Copper, Iron, Silver, Slate and Other Material by Alfred P. Swineford (1876)
"THE Menominee IRON REGION. The center of this region is about fifty miles north of west from Escanaba; fifty to sixty miles ..."

8. Contributions to the Pre-Cambrian Geology of Northern Michigan and Wisconsin by Rolland Craten Allen, L. P. Barrett, Ermine Cowles Case, W. I. Robinson (1915)
"Each of the three Huronian series seems to be represented here exactly as in the Felch syncline a few miles north. 4. Menominee Range. ..."

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