This legislation restored official federal recognition to the Menominee tribe.
He was a fur trapper and an interpreter for the United States government during its early contacts with the Menominee tribe.
The Illinois tribe was generally far to the south; the Menominee tribe was just to the north.
During this time he took a wife from the Menominee tribe named Agathe Wood and had a daughter.
She was a leader in regaining tribal status for the Menominee tribe.
The Menominee tribe had three times the infant mortality rate as the rest of the state.
The Western Oregon tribes who were terminated, much like the Menominee tribe, also felt the effects of termination on their health care services.
The Menominee tribe had 800 individuals within the tribe and 220 individuals who were unemployed in June 1968.
The Menominee tribe of Wisconsin was one of the first tribes proposed for termination.
In 1973, Congress repealed termination and restored federal recognition of the Menominee tribe.