The Menominee Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation

Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs...

 located in northeastern Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

 for the Menominee

Menominee

Some placenames use other spellings, see also Menomonee and Menomonie.The Menominee are a nation of Native Americans living in Wisconsin. The Menominee, along with the Ho-Chunk, are the only tribes that are indigenous to what is now Wisconsin...

.

For the most part it is conterminous with Menominee County and the town of Menominee

Menominee, Wisconsin

For the city in western Wisconsin, see Menomonie.Menominee is a town in Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,562 at the 2000 census...

. 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

Keshena, Wisconsin

Keshena is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, the population was 1,262 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...

. Furthermore, the reservation has a plot of off-reservation trust land of 10.22 acre

Acre

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...

s in Winnebago County

Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Winnebago County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of 2009, the population estimate was 163,370. Its county seat is Oshkosh. Winnebago County is included in the Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Neenah, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

, to the south, west of the city of Oshkosh

Oshkosh, Wisconsin

As of the census of 2000, there were 62,916 people, 24,082 households, and 13,654 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,662.2 people per square mile . There were 25,420 housing units at an average density of 1,075.6 per square mile...

. 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

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

. (The plot of land in Winnebago County is unpopulated.) The most populous communities are Legend Lake

Legend Lake, Wisconsin

Legend Lake is a census-designated place in Menominee County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States, on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The population was 1,525 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Legend Lake is located at ....

 and Keshena

Keshena, Wisconsin

Keshena is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, the population was 1,262 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...

. They operate a number of gambling facilities and speak the Menominee language

Menominee language

The Menominee language is an Algonquian language originally spoken by the Menominee people of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. It is still spoken on the Menominee Nation lands in Northern Wisconsin in the United States....

.

Communities

• Keshena
  Keshena, Wisconsin
  Keshena is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, the population was 1,262 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
  
   (most, population 1,168)
• Legend Lake
  Legend Lake, Wisconsin
  Legend Lake is a census-designated place in Menominee County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States, on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The population was 1,525 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Legend Lake is located at ....
  
   (most, population 853)
• Middle Village
  Middle Village, Wisconsin
  Middle Village is a census-designated place in Menominee and Shawano counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It does not have any legal status as an incorporated municipality...
  
   (part, population 35)
• Neopit
  Neopit, Wisconsin
  Neopit is a census-designated place in Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 690 at the 2010 census. Neopit is located along Wisconsin Highway 47 at its intersection with County Road M, approximately southeast of Zoar....
  
   (most, population 637)
• Zoar
  Zoar, Wisconsin
  Zoar is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 98 at the 2010 census...
  
   (most, population 106)

Education

• The College of the Menominee Nation
  College of the Menominee Nation
  College of Menominee NationSchool typePrivate Tribal-based Community CollegePresidentDr. Verna FowlerPrimary LocationKeshena, WisconsinEnrollment371 Students Founded1993Campus surroundingsReservationBuilding Footage...
  
   is the tribal college. The main campus is in Keshena.

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
  Milwaukee Public Museum
  The Milwaukee Public Museum is a natural and human history museum located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The museum was chartered in 1882 and opened to the public in 1884; it is a not-for-profit organization operated by the Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc. MPM has three floors of exhibits...