Menominee
1 Americannoun
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a member of a group of American Indian people of northeastern Wisconsin.
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the Eastern Algonquian language of the Menominee.
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“Enough is enough. Endless scrolling is rewiring our teenagers’ brains,” added Gena Kakkak, chairwoman of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
In Marvel’s latest live-action series, “Echo,” she plays Bonnie, the cousin of its title character, who is an antihero from the Choctaw tribe played by Menominee actor Alaqua Cox.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024
Born Aug. 7, 1935, on the Menominee reservation in Keshena, Wis., Deer is remembered as a trailblazer and fierce advocate for tribal sovereignty.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023
Besaw is a cousin of Cox's, and both actors are from the Menominee tribe.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2021
But the line of division at last adopted was that of the Montreal and Menominee rivers, by the way of Lake Vieux Désert.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
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