Five “right” ways to spell Menominee
Source: Volume One
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How you spell Menominee or Menomonie depends on where you’re from. Here’s a rundown from our neighbors in Wisconsin.
Excerpt: For those of us in the Chippewa Valley, this spelling is the “right” one – or at least the one we’re most familiar with. As with the other spellings, the Dunn County city’s name comes from the name the Ojibwe gave to their neighbors, who lived in a large territory in what is now Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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Source: Volume One
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