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menomini


noun, plural Me·nom·i·nis, (especially collectively) Me·nom·i·ni.

  1. Menominee.

noun, plural Me·nom·i·nees, (especially collectively) Me·nom·i·nee for 1.

  1. a member of a group of American Indian people of northeastern Wisconsin.
  2. the Eastern Algonquian language of the Menominee.

noun

  1. plural -ni, -nis, -nee or -nees a member of a North American Indian people formerly living between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

also Menomini, Algonquian people of Wisconsin, from Ojibwa (Algonquian) Manoominii, literally “wild rice people,” from manoomin “wild rice.” Not their name for themselves.

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