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
Examples of Menominee in a Sentence
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In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, counties including Alger, Luce, Delta, and Schoolcraft are bracing for up to 8 inches of snow and ice accumulations of up to half an inch through Sunday evening, while Dickinson, Iron, and Menominee Counties could see up to 6 inches of snow.
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
In Michigan, the NWS has issued a winter storm warning for multiple counties including Delta, Luce, Menominee, and Schoolcraft counties, where 4 to 6 inches of snow are expected.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Before inventing the skyscraper, Chicago was the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Staff at the College of Menominee Nation were seeking reimbursement for $50,000 spent on research and other work conducted in January, when a federal website indicated a grant from the USDA had been suspended.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
Similar patterns follow after European contact: When settlers felled northern Wisconsin’s white pine forests, tribes like the Menominee turned to trees such as hemlock and butternut.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Newberry Library Chicagoland is the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery The only Perkins Restaurant & Bakery left in Michigan is located in Menominee.
—Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
In 1977, the Siletz became the second tribe to succeed, following the restoration of the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin in 1973.
—Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
In Michigan, the NWS has issued a winter storm warning for multiple counties including Delta, Luce, Menominee, and Schoolcraft counties, where 4 to 6 inches of snow are expected.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Before inventing the skyscraper, Chicago was the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Staff at the College of Menominee Nation were seeking reimbursement for $50,000 spent on research and other work conducted in January, when a federal website indicated a grant from the USDA had been suspended.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
Similar patterns follow after European contact: When settlers felled northern Wisconsin’s white pine forests, tribes like the Menominee turned to trees such as hemlock and butternut.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Newberry Library Chicagoland is the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery The only Perkins Restaurant & Bakery left in Michigan is located in Menominee.
—Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
In 1977, the Siletz became the second tribe to succeed, following the restoration of the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin in 1973.
—Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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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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