The Year Ahead – October 14

In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.

October 14 – Find resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day by visiting https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360

My half-siblings descend from the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin. I find researching this branch of their family very interesting. I have found some books about their relatives that was written by one of their distant relatives. Their 4th great-grandfather was Vieux Caron, Menominee leader, who died ca. 1780.

• The Menominee are a federally recognized Native American tribe whose history dates back 10,000 years.
• The Menominee refer to themselves as Mamaceqtaw, which means "the people". The name Menominee comes from the Algonkian word manomin, which means "wild rice".
• The Menominee Indian Reservation is in Wisconsin, and includes parts of central and mid-eastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• The Menominee once occupied 10 million acres of land, but treaties with the U.S. government reduced their land base to 235,000 acres today.
• The Menominee economy is dominated by lumber sales, which account for about half of the reservation's economic activity. The tribe also has a casino, hotel, and logging camp museum. 
• The Menominee are known for tapping maple trees for syrup each spring, and some still gather medicinal plants.
• The Menominee are the only present-day tribe in Wisconsin whose origin story indicates they have always lived in the state.
• The Menominee are also known as Anishinaabe, Chippewa, Ojibway, and Ojibwe.

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