Menominis

Variant of Menomini

noun pl. Menominis or Menomini

  1. a member of a North American Indian people now living in Wisconsin and formerly living also in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Origin: Ojibwa manoominii, lit., person of the wild rice

Also sp. Menominee
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