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MENOMINEE
LAND
and
PEOPLE

Menomonee making traditional burch bark canoe in wooden  framework.

1871

Menomonee Statesman Markomete
Lithograph Copy
Painted by Charles Bird King
from life
during travels in WI Territory for the 
McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery
of American Indians
1832
Original oil was destroyed by fire at the Smithsonian Institution in 1865

Menominee Warrior Chief Amiskquew
Lithograph Copy
Painted Otto Lewis
from life 
during travels in WI Territory for the 
McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery
of American Indians
1832
Original oil was destroyed by fire at the Smithsonian Institution in 1865 

Menominee Boy TCHA-KAUKS-O-KO-MAUGH
(translation: The Great Indian Chief)
by George Catlin
from life
during travels in the Wisconsin Territory
1836

 

 

Menominee Medicine Man
1911 

Menominee camp along the river rapids (center right) with women drying fish on racks, infant (center under tarp awning), summer  houses, dogs and birch canoe. 
c:: 1880 .

Menominee burial ground with wooden grave covers 
on Route 47..

Spirit Rock
mid 1900's

Menominee owned and operated sawmill
at Neopit
c: 1930

Wash Day
early 1900's

Reginald Oshkosh, Son of Chief Oshkosh, Menominee Indian. 
c: 1920 .

Menominee Pine Row on Route 55. 
c: 1925 .

Wolf River, Keshena Falls log run

Big Eddy in high water, Wolf River 
c: 1910 

Wolf River, Big Eddy
c: 1915

 

Menominee medicine lodge
c: 1900

Menominee Singer 
Che Qua Kis Ka Tuppi
Photo from the 1930's.

 

Dells of the Wolf River

 

Dells of the Wolf River

Wolf River Dells and deep water rapids
c: 1920

Menominee family winter home.

Menominee Route 47
c: 1925
.

Menominee man in full dress,
early 1900's

Big Smokey Falls, Wolf River
c: 1920

Smokey Falls, Wolf River
c: 1905


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