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Article: The Menominee Nation and its treaty rights
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- News From Indian Country
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- June 15, 1995
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Luis Alberto Torres
News From Indian Country
06-15-1995
The Menominee Nation and its treaty rights.
The Menominee Nation has continually inhabited what has become known as Wisconsin longer than any other group.
The path from original contact with Europeans to past and current struggles to maintain their identity as a sovereign nation has been long. This path is seen as mirroring most of the history of the relationship between the original inhabitants of this nation and the culture and policies of Europe and the United States.
In a series of treaties signed in 1831, 1836, and 1854 the Menominee Nation agreed to give up most of their land in the northeastern quarter of Wisconsin in exchange for ...