#menominee

[detroitlib]

View of the Spies Public Library in Menominee, Michigan. Printed on front: "Spies Public Library, Menominee, Mich. Copyright 1914 by C.H. Dye." Handwritten on back: "Greetings from Menominee. This is to add to your collection. Elizabeth Manchester." Card is postmarked July 29, 1914.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[probablyasocialecologist]

The Menominee people once occupied some 10 million acres stretching from the eastern half of what is now Wisconsin into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but in the 19th century were forced to cede the vast majority of it. Pressured by the federal government to relocate to northern Minnesota, the tribe negotiated to stay put, on a fraction of its ancestral land around the Wolf River.

According to Michael Skenadore, president of Menominee Tribal Enterprises, the tribe began logging shortly after the formation of its reservation, when it recognized the revenue potential of white pine. The government wanted the tribe to clear the trees and to farm, according to Michael Dockry, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s forest resources department.

But the Menominee people had no intention of destroying their forest.

Instead, they saw it as a collective resource that, if carefully harvested, could allow them to maintain their cultural connection to the land while providing for plants, animals and the tribe for generations to come. A quotation attributed to the tribe’s legendary Chief Oshkosh set their course. If the Menominee took only very old, sick and fallen trees, he said, “the trees will last forever.”

The result was a sustainable forest that is influential today. Foresters routinely come from around the world to study the Menominee land, which has been recognized by the United Nations and certified by the Forest Steward Council, the gold standard for responsible forestry, among other awards.

Tribal forests are generally healthier, better managed and more biodiverse, making them more resilient to climate change, Dr. Dockry said. And many consider the acreage under the control of the Menominee to be the healthiest managed forest in the United States — even though tribal forests get one-third of the funding per acre that federal forests receive, according to Cody Desautel, president of the Intertribal Timber Council.

“In many ways,”  Dr. Dockry said, “they are leading the feds in how to manage forests.”

[mikelogan]

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[clove-pinks]

A portrait of Chief Souligny of the Menominee (Wisconsin Historical Society). Undated, but credited to the English-born American artist Samuel Marsden Brookes (1816-1892).

I can't find any information about Souligny other than what the Wisconsin Historical Society provides: that he was named after his French great-grandfather, and he was an ally of Tecumseh who sided with the British in the War of 1812. He later changed his loyalty to the United States, and he is shown wearing a James Madison Peace Medal.

Yesterday I picked up Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens from the library. I'm currently reading the section in the book about the battle for Fort Meigs, which is eye-opening. But there's nothing in the book's index about Chief Souligny. Maybe he was a very minor figure in Tecumseh's confederacy, I don't know.

It's frustrating and it feels like a symbol of how hard it is to learn the specifics of Indigenous participation in the War of the 1812: and there was a lot of it, especially on what was then the northwestern frontier of the United States. Many First Nations allied with the British against the expansion of US settlements, and in many War of 1812 battles there are a substantial number of Indigenous warriors, who are sometimes in the majority with British regulars and USAmerican army or militia as the other forces.

There are yearly reenactments of the Siege of Prarie du Chien in the War of 1812, but if you look up pictures you won't see any Menominee, Ho-Chunk, or Meskwaki—who were the vast majority of participants. If they're present they never seem to be in the photos.

[charring58]

The #Menominee were one of the first Tribes to be terminated. Termination ended government support for infrastructure, including schools, social services, and hospitals. People died due to substandard healthcare. Our identity was stripped from us, and our people were immobilized and demoralized.

[yourdailyqueer]

Chrystos

Gender: Two spirit (they/them)

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 7 November 1946

Ethnicity: White, Native American (Menominee)

Occupation: Writer, artist, activist

[aryburn-trains]

Here is the passenger train that came up from Chicago as the “Valley 400″, turned at Menominee and returned to Chicago as the "Shoreland 400" on Sundays only. This photo is on the bridge between Menominee and Marinette as it is beginning its return south. Sept. 1964.

[disruptiveempathy]

To head the [Bureau of Indian Affairs], Truman appointed Dillon S. Meyer, former director of the War Relocation Authority and administrator of the World War II Japanese Internment Program. Meyer surrounded himself at the BIA with other bureaucrats who favored termination, preparing the administrative machinery for a national withdrawal program. The passage of House Concurrent Resolution Number 108 in 1953 allowed Congress to pass specific legislation terminating treaty relationships with various tribes as a means of denying Indian sovereignty. Between 1954 and 1962, Congress terminated several tribes, most notably the Klamath, Menominee, and some groups of Paiute in Utah, but these initiatives ultimately affected only about 3 percent of the Indian population.

—Roger Giles, from "Public Housing on the Reservation," published in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

Just after noon on 4 June, Yellowstone photography guide Jordan Creech was sightseeing with clients when he spotted the freshly-born white buffalo calf, taking its first steps in the park’s Lamar Valley.

Bison calves can walk within two minutes of being born, and run alongside their herd within the first seven minutes of life.

“It’s the most unique experience I’ve ever had,” Creech says.

Erin Braaten, a photographer of Native American descent from Kalispell, Montana, also witnessed the calf’s first moments of life before it disappeared into the herd.

"I thought I'd have a better chance of capturing Bigfoot than a white bison calf," she tells BBC News.

For the last 2,000 years the people of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakoda tribes have told the story of a woman who arrived during a time of need.

A version speaks of two scouts searching for food and buffalo in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The mysterious woman appeared and offered their tribe a bundle of sacred gifts, including a pipe carved from red rock, and instructed the people on how to live and pray.

She transformed several times before taking the form a white buffalo calf with a black nose, black eyes and black hooves. As she departed, a great number of buffalo returned to feed the people.

Dozens of other tribes have white buffalo stories, interpreting its arrival as both a blessing and a warning.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, a spiritual leader of the Lakota Tribe, is known as the Keeper of the Sacred Bundle — the bundle and pipe left by the spirit. He likens the white calf’s return to the second coming of Christ.

Looking Horse, 70, said that before she departed, the woman told the people that she would return as a white buffalo calf “when everything is sickly and not good, and when people are with a not good mind”.

“This is spirit. It means spirit is happening,” he added.

On 26 June, more than 500 supporters formally celebrated the white calf at an event in West Yellowstone, just outside the park. Nearly a dozen tribes were represented.

Together, they heard the name bestowed upon the calf - Wakan Gli, meaning Sacred Returns or Comes Holy in the Lakota language. An altar of three buffalo skulls and three buffalo robes marked the occasion.

Waemaetekosew Waupekenay, 38, who travelled from Wisconsin to attend on behalf of the Menominee Tribe, said the birth of the sacred calf has been a spiritual awakening.

Its arrival, he says with amazement, shows that “there's a lot of healing, a lot of love going around. People are being united.”

National Park rangers at Yellowstone have confirmed the white bison's birth, but rangers have not reported any sightings themselves.

“The birth of a white bison calf in the wild is a landmark event in the ecocultural recovery of bison by the National Park Service,” the park said in a statement on 28 June confirming it as the first white bison ever seen inside Yellowstone.

They added that it "may reflect the presence of a natural genetic legacy that was preserved in Yellowstone’s bison, which has revealed itself because of the successful recovery of a wild bison population".

"The National Park Services acknowledges the significance of a white bison calf for American Indians,” it added.

[mrterpenes]

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[turtleterrain]

beaded garters showing art figures

[draconesmundi]

Happy Dracones Monday! Water Panther

The Water Panther is from the Great Lakes of North America - I am not going to call this Mishipeshu, as that is a specific spirit and not an animal - I want to respectully mention Native American folklore in my project (as I don't want North America to only have dragons invented by westerners) but I don't want to equate spirits and important figures to 'cryptids' - I will either find a respectful way to include water panthers in the project or I will remove them - for now I'm just posting this picture on my blog. I based the face on a lynx, and gave him a copper coloured tail.

Here are links to Native-Languages.org website on the Water Panther and the 'True Tiger', for people wanting to learn more. Native Languages is a great resource for learning about folklore, languages and traditions in North America!

[charring58]

chief oshkosh was born in 1795 and was chief of the menominee american indians from 1827 until his death 1858 the city of oshkosh wisconsin is named in his

[weed-cat]

the funniest part about the term Native American is that i've never heard an indigenous person with a background in indigenous communities earnestly identify themselves using that label, it's such a white person thing to say

[tredawakandan]

In today's episode of *Whitewashed* we have Chief Osh Kosh of the Menominee.. As you plainly see that man is darker toned 😅. How them folks got away with making him lighter like that is laughable, but pretty common. It's why we have to bring back the truth of the situation 👌🏿... What's also interesting is that the term many of us heard growing up(from shows etc) Osh Kosh B'gosh carries his name. Also to note the clothing company of the same name comes the town which was named after the chief...

What's interesting about the Menominee as seen above is they like many tribes here in the Americas practiced and advocated for Getting it back in blood 😅🫡😤💯💯

Whitewashing / erasing aboriginal history is slowly but surely becoming undone.. Aboriginal Influence is the basis of all knowledge..

All these years I should've guessed they were lying about how Sacagawea looked😧