The Menominee are descendants of the Late Woodland Indians who inhabited the lands once occupied by Hopewell Indians, the earliest human inhabitants of the Lake Michigan region. As the Hopewell culture declined, circa A.D. 800, the Lake Michigan region eventually became home to Late Woodland Indians .

Menominee (c. 1791 – April 15, 1841) was a Potawatomi chief and religious leader whose village on reservation lands at Twin Lakes, 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Plymouth in present-day Marshall County, Indiana, became the gathering place for the Potawatomi who refused to remove from their Indiana reservation lands in 1838. Their primary ...

Chief Oshkosh (also spelled Os-kosh or Oskosh) (c. 1795–August 31, 1858 [a]) was a chief of the Menominee Native Americans, recognized as the leader of the Menominee people by the United States government from August 7, 1827, until his death.

In the year 1827 at the Treaty of Butte des Morts, Governor Lewis Cass recognized Oshkosh as chief of the Menominee's. In 1830 Judge James Doty in a dramatic trial saved the Chief from the penalty of murder of another Indian on the grounds that …

Oshkosh was a Menominee Indian chief who was tried in a landmark case in 1830 for murdering a fellow Indian. He was probably born in a tribal hunting camp on the Wisconsin River in 1795. During the War of 1812 he served with Menominee warriors on the British side at Mackinac, Fort Meigs and Fort Sandusky.

The Menominee were initially reluctant to make peace with the United States, but finally did so in 1817. Soon afterward, the Menominee became embroiled in a disagreement with the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown Indians. These three tribes emigrated from New York to escape settler encroachment.

In testimony whereof, the said William Medill, Commissioner as aforesaid, and the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the said Menomonee tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the place and on the day and year aforesaid.

2021年1月10日 · According to a 1925 history of Hermansville written by Charles M. Case, the Menominees' great chief, Bear Paw, lived in a village where Hermansville now stands in northern Menominee County. Case relates a legend passed down by Bear Paw's sister, a prophetess named Och-kum-in-kee.

Other Indians called them Menominee (also spelled Menomini), derived from manomin, an Algonkian word for wild rice, because it is a major food source for the tribe. The Menominee lived around Green Bay when the French explorer Jean Nicolet arrived there in 1634. The French called the Menominee Folles Avoines -- "the wild oats people."

Accepted position of grand chief of Menominee tribe, 11 Aug. 1827. Represented Menominee Nation in Treaty of Butte des Morts, 11 Aug. 1827. Served with Menominee warriors in U.S. Army during Winnebago War, 1827, and during Black Hawk War, 1832.