. Bulletin. Ethnology. 842 MENOMINEE [b. a. E. former Chippewa village on the e. bank of Saginaw r., in lower Michigan.—Sagi- naw treaty (1820) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 142, 1873. Menominee {meno, by change from mino, 'good', 'beneficent'; m/»,a 'grain','seed', the Chippewa name of the wild rice.— Hewitt. Full name Menominkvok inini- icok, the latter term signifying 'they are men'). An Algonquian tribe, the mem- bers of which, according to Dr William Jones, claim to understand Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo far more easily than they do Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, hence it is possible that their li
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 842 MENOMINEE [b. a. E. former Chippewa village on the e. bank of Saginaw r., in lower Michigan.—Sagi- naw treaty (1820) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 142, 1873. Menominee {meno, by change from mino, 'good', 'beneficent'; m/»,a 'grain','seed', the Chippewa name of the wild rice.— Hewitt. Full name Menominkvok inini- icok, the latter term signifying 'they are men'). An Algonquian tribe, the mem- bers of which, according to Dr William Jones, claim to understand Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo far more easily than they do Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, hence it is possible that their linguistic relation is near to the former group of Algonquians. Grignon (Wis. Hist. AMI3KQUEW —MENOMINEE MAN. Coll., Ill, 265, 1857) speaks of the Noquet as a part of the Menominee, and states that "the earliest locality of the Menominee, at the first visits of the whites, was at Bay de Noque and Me- nominee r., and those at Bay de Noque were called by the early French Des Noques or Des ; {^^e Noquet.) The Jesuit Relation for 1671 includes the Menominee among the tribes driven from their country—that is, "the lands of the south next to Michilimackinac," which is the locality where the Noquet lived when they first became known to the French. It is generally believed that the Noquet, who disappeared from history at a comparatively early date, were closely related to the Chippewa and were incor- porated into their tribes; nevertheless,. the name Menominee must have been adopted after the latter reached their his- toric seat; it is possible they were pre- viously known as Noquet. Charlevoix (Jour. Voy., ii, 61, 1761) says: "I have been assured that they had the same original and nearly the same languages with the Noquet and the Indians at the ; The people of this tribe, so far as known, were first encountered by the whites when Nicolet visited them, probably in 1634, at the mouth of Menominee r., In 1671, and hencef
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