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Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation
Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation
Laguna Pueblo and Off-Reservation Trust Land
La Jolla Indian Reservation
L’Anse Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
La Posta Indian Reservation
Las Vegas Colony
Laytonville Rancheria
Leech Lake Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Likely Rancheria
Little River Indian Reservation
Little Traverse Bay Indian Reservation
Lone Pine Indian Reservation
Lookout Rancheria
Los Coyotes Indian Reservation
Lovelock Colony
Lower Elwha Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Lower Sioux Indian Reservation
Lummi Indian Reservation
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Makah Indian Reservation
Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria
Manzanita Indian Reservation
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation
Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Menominee Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Mesa Grande Indian Reservation
Mescalero Indian Reservation
Miccosukee Indian Reservation
Middletown Rancheria
Mille Lacs Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land – See Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
Mille Lacs Lake Indian Reservation
Sandy Lake Indian Reservation
Minnesota Chippewa Trust Land
Mississippi Choctaw Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Moapa River Indian Reservation
Mohegan Indian Reservation
Montgomery Creek Rancheria
Mooretown Rancheria
Morongo Indian Reservation
Muckleshoot Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
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Nambe Pueblo and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Narragansett Indian Reservation
Navajo Nation Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Nez Perce Indian Reservation
Nisqually Indian Reservation
Nooksack Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land
North Fork Rancheria
Northwestern Shoshoni Indian Reservation
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The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe lives in the Las Vegas Indian Colony in Las Vegas,Nevada and has additional land north of Las Vegas along the Reno-Tonopah Highway, near the Mt. Chareston turnoff.
The Menominee Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in northeastern Wisconsin held in trust by the United States for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
For the most part it is conterminous with Menominee County, Wisconsin and the town of Menominee. Many small pockets of territory within the county (and its geographically equivalent town) are not considered to be part of the reservation.
These pockets amount to a fairly small 1.14 percent of the county’s area; the reservation takes up about 98.86 percent of the county’s area. The largest of these pockets is in the western part of the community of Keshena. A section of the reservation is located in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin.
The reservation has a plot of off-reservation trust land of 10.22 acres in Winnebago County to the south, west of the city of Oshkosh. The reservation’s total land area is 353.894 sq mi (916.581 km²), while Menominee County’s land area is 357.960 sq mi (927.111 km²).
The non-reservation parts of the county are more densely populated than the reservation, with 1,337 (29.3%) of the county’s 4,562 total population, as opposed to the reservation’s 3,225 (70.7%) population in the 2000 census. (The plot of land in Winnebago County is unpopulated.) The most populous communities are Legend Lake and Keshena. The Menominee operate a number of gambling facilities.
The Menominee speak English as well as the Menominee language, part of the Algonquian language family.
Communities that are all or partly on the Menominee Reservation include:
- Keshena (most, population 1,168)
- Legend Lake (most, population 853)
- Middle Village (part, population 35)
- Neopit (most, population 637)
- Zoar (most, population 106)
The Menominee became one of the first tribes in the United States to undergo a new federal program called Termination, signed by President Dwight Eisenhower in June of 1954. This policy terminated the United States jurisdiction over the Menominee Tribe and ended their tribal sovereignty.
The Menominee underwent Termination early because the federal government felt the tribe possessed the economic resources necessary to succeed without governmental supervision. On April 30, 1961 the reservation ceased to exist and became Menominee County. All tribal property and assets were held by Menominee Enterprises, Incorporated.
All federal services ended with the assumption that the tribe could service itself. The reservation hospital at Keshena closed due to the lack of federal funds. Only one other tribe, the Klamath in Oregon, had been terminated by Congress, and the problems that they and the Menominee faced convinced other tribes to resist the government’s policy.
Termination of the Menominee Tribe led to a drastic decline in tribal employment, increased poverty, and brought about devastating reductions in basic services and health care.
The Menominee’s greatest fear was that without federal protection, their tribal lands would pass into the hands of non-Indians. In 1970, a few Menominees banded together and created the Determination of Rights and Unity for Menominee Shareholders (DRUMS) group, which sought to end termination and restore the Menominee status as a federally recognized tribe.
Under the direction of Ada Deer, a Menominee woman, DRUMS pushed for the restoration of the Menominee federal status. On December 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon signed the Menominee Restoration Bill into law.
In April 1975, the lands of Menominee County reverted back to reservation status, and in 1976, the Menominee approved their new tribal constitution. The new tribal legislature took over governance of the tribe in 1979.
The Menominee founded the College of the Menominee Nation, a tribal college, in 1993. It was accredited in 1998. The main campus is in Keshena.
The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) approved plans of the Menominee Nation to build a casino at the former Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The Moapa Indian Reservation is located about 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada near Moapa.