A brief story of the Menominee Indians

              Treaty of May 12, 1851, (10 Stat, 1064). entered in at Keshena Falls,
Wisconsin,
The treaty states that upon "manifestation of great umirilling- ness on the part of said Indians to remove to the country west of the Mississippi River, upon Crow 'Jing", the Menominee tribe agreed to cede to the United States all the Minnesota Lands given them under the treaty of October 18, 1848. In return the tribe accepted as their future home "to be held as Indian lands are held" twelve townships of land in the ^;^olf River Country of Wisconsin,, Except for the cession later of two townships, the 1654 reservation has continued to be and still is the Menoi-iinee Indian Reservation.
The treats'- provided that the government was to pay $15,000 for establishi?.ent of a manual-labor school, the erection of a grist and saw mill, and other necessary improvements; (2) to pay $9,000 for enploj'-ing a suitable person to attend and carry on the said grist and saw mill for a period of 15 years; (3) $11,000 for continuing, keeping up and providing supplies of a blacksmith shop for 12 years; and (4) $40,000 to the tribe for such purposes and uses as in the President's judgment would best proniote the improvement of the Menominees, (This $40,000 was in lieu of a similar am^ount which had been allocated for the tribe's removal and subsistence in the Minnesota country,) It was stated that all other beneficial stipulations of the 1848 treaty were to be fulfilled.
The tribe was granted a payment of $242,686, which represented the difference in values between the Minnesota land \diich the tribe had ceded and the nev; reservation at Keshena. The money was to be paid in 15 annual installments, commencing with the year 1867, for such objects, uses, and purposes as the President of the United States would "judge necessary and proper for their wants, improvement, and civilization".
Except for the cession later of tv/o townships, the 1854 reservation has continued to be and still is the Menominee Indian Reservation. No further attempts were made to move the tribe.
Treaty of February 11^ 1856, (11 Stat. 679). entered in at Keshena,
Wisconsin
The tribe ceded to the United States two townships from the southeaterly part of the 1854 reservation for the purpose of locating thereon the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians and such others of the New York Indians as the U. S. might desire to remove thereon.