Menomini
Americannoun
plural
Menominis,plural
Menomininoun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
Example Sentences
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Across the Great Lakes, Ojibwe and Menomini worked lumber camps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
The custom of apologizing to an animal on killing it, frequent elsewhere, is reported as existing among the Algonkin Ottawas and Menomini; but this is not necessarily totemic.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
A word of admonition from the wisdom lore of the Menomini tribe says, “Look often at the moon and the stars.”
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)
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