In 1893 he wrote that the "Menomini cult society, usually designated as the Grand Medicine Society, ...
He wrote a how-to article entitled "Collecting among the Menomini" for the Wisconsin Archaeologist but also explained his methods in numerous asides in his longer works.
In "Collecting among the Menomini" Skinner described constantly being accosted by elderly acquaintances willing to exchange belongings for much-needed money.
For Medicine Ceremony of the Menomini he bought the "secrets" of the Mitawin from one of its priests in the summer of 1913.
As it was taboo to reveal the rites to a white man, the writer was formally adopted by the old shaman, who made a special tobacco sacrifice to Ma'nabus and the gods, telling them that he had received the writer into his family as a nephew (a closer relationship than a son, to the Menomini mind), and thenceforth he referred to me as ninakwuna ("my sister's son"), both during the instruction and at other times.
Satterlee appears as coauthor with Skinner on Folklore of the Menomini Indians not because he helped write the text of that monograph but because he collected many of the stories.
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Louise Spindler made a thorough study of witchcraft among the Menomini women in the 1950s.
Like some other tribes' practitioners, including the Pawnees, the Menomini witch visited graves of recently interred persons to consume certain internal body parts.
The Menomini witch had a witch bag or bundle in which she kept her magical objects.
Menomini doctors' medicine bundles contained medicines for curing head ache, diarrhea, abortion, inducing pregnancy, and protection from witchcraft.(17) An owl bundle and a bear bundle could contain objects used in witchcraft depending on the type of practitioner owning them, whether it was a good curing doctor or one disposed to use magic for evil purposes.
(23.) In the Menomini account the evil snake also had to be fed to keep it from harming family members.
"Menomini `family' was a larger and more inclusive kinship
the Jesuit Allouez marked that "the Menomini [are] a people who
