The Menominee Clans Committee Recommends the Following:

(hyperlinked titles are owned by the UWSP Library)

General:

Hoffman, Walter James (1846-1899). The Menomini Indians. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970 (Reprint of the 1896 ed.) (Landmarks in Anthropology)

Keesing, Felix Maxwell, (1902-1961). The Menomini Indians of Wisconsin; a study of three centuries of cultural contact and change. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1939.

Economy:

Jenks, Albert Ernest (1869-1953). The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes: A Study in American Primitive Economics . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. ( Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 19, part 2, pp. 1013-1160)

Ethnobotany:

Smith, Huron Herbert (1883-1933). Ethnobotany of the Menominee Indians. Milwaukee, Board of Trustees, Public Museum, 1923. (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, v. 4, no. 1)

Language:

Bloomfield, Leonard (1887-1949). Menominee lexicon. Edited by Charles F. Hockett. Milwaukee : Milwaukee Public Museum Press, 1975. (Milwaukee Public Museum Publications in Anthropology History, no. 3)

__________________________. The Menominee Language . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. (William Dwight Whitney Linguistic Series)

Hockett, Charles Francis, editor. A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970. (Indiana University Studies in the History and Theory of Linguistics)

Memoirs & Biographies:

Grignon, Augustine (1780-1860). "Seventy-Two Years Recollections." Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 3. Madison: The Society, 1855-1857. Pp 197-295

Powell, William (1810-1877). "William Powell's Recollections in an Interview with Lyman C. Draper." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Madison: The Society, 1912. Pp. 146-175.

Material Culture:

Skinner, Alanson (1886-1925). Material Culture of the Menomini. New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1921.

Music:

Densmore, Frances (1867-1957). Menominee Music. Washington, U.S. Government. Printing Office, 1932. (Bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, 102 )

Mythology and Folklore:

Skinner, Alanson (1886-1925). Associations and Ceremonies of the Menomini Indians. New York, The Trustees, 1915. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13, pt. 2)

______________ and John V. Satterlee (1852-?). Folklore of the Menomini Indians. New York, The Trustees, 1915. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13, pt. 3)

______________. Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians. New York, The Trustees, 1913. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13, pt. 1)

Additional Resources

We recommend that you continue your search in the University Library's Catalog for Menominee Indians. In addition to the resources listed on this page, you will find additional materials that have been carefully selected to address the needs of our students and faculty. Click on the link above to automatically search the catalog for materials relating to the Menominee.

Web Bibliograpies

A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, for K-12. Compiled by P. Ann Kaupp, Fiona Burnett, Maureen Malloy, and Cheryl Wilson. Washington, D.C., Anthropology Outreach Office of the Smithsonian Institution, July 24, 2000. (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/Indbibl/)

Native Americans: Recommended Books and Resources. By Debbie Reese. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, September 2000. (http://ericeece.org/pubs/reslist/native00.html)

Selected Bibliography of American Indian Studies Materials for Teachers and Classroom Use. Compiled by J. P. Leary, Consultant American Indian Studies Program, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. (http://dpi.wi.gov/amind/pdf/aipacket.pdf)

Recommended Web Sites

Index of Native American Museum Resources on the Internet. Text and Graphics Karen M. Strom. ©1994-. WWW Virtual Library - American Indians. (http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAmuseums.html)

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. Keshena, Wisconsin. (http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/)

Native Americans - Internet Resources. Internet School Library Media Center, January 22, 2000. (http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm)

North American Indians: Resources on the Internet. By Margaret R. Dittemore. Washington, D.C., Anthropology Outreach Office of the Smithsonian Institution. (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/Indbibl/IndiansontheInternet.htm)

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