the Menominee nation has always lived in Wisconsin, especially the forested northeast around Green Bay; often called in early French documents the Folle Avoine, or wild rice, Indians, from their reliance on that local food; their reservation is at Keshena; population 2001: 8,055.

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[Source: Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001); official tribal Website: http://www.menominee.nsn.us/]