Menominee
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Me·nom·i·nee
(mə-nŏm′ə-nē)n. pl. Menominee or Me·nom·i·nees
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area along the Menominee River, with a present-day population in northeast Wisconsin.
2. The Algonquian language of this people.
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| Noun | 1. |  Menominee - a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central WisconsinAlgonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast |
| 2. | Menominee - the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains |
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