Menominee’s story is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Menominee. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In historic times, this area was the traditional territory of the Menominee Indian Tribe. The town of Menominee was named after their English name which roughly translates as "wild rice," a nickname given to them by their Ojibwe neighbors based on their cultivation of wild rice as a staple food. In their own language, they are known as Mamaceqtaw which means simply "the people", and the town of Menominee is known as Menekaunee (sometimes spelled Menīkāneh), which means "at the good village". They were removed to west of the Mississippi River and now have a reservation along the Wolf River in North Central Wisconsin after ceding their territory to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Menominee’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Menominee’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMenominee Abstract & Land Co, 1980: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Menominee, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Menominee Abstract & Land Co (1980) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (11) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.