Tribe receives grant to make museum reality

The dream of a cultural museum for the Menominee Indian Reservation will soon become a reality.

The tribe recently learned that they will receive a $600,000 grant to build the facility, which will cost about $1 million. The tribal legislature, during a May meeting, had pledged a match of $400,000.

“The tribe’s match shows their commitment to language and culture for the Menominee people,” said David Grignon, tribal historic preservation officer. “It’s a huge commitment to pledge that amount of money to the museum,”

The Indian Community Development Block Grant is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Preliminary drawings of the new museum have been created, and Grignon said an environmental assessment needs to be done before they can get final plans and break ground. The new museum will be on the 40 acres at the Logging Camp Museum, which is between Oshkosh Road and the Wolf River off of Highway 47, just north of Keshena.

“We’re waiting for the architect’s final design and drawings. Hopefully in the spring we’ll do the groundbreaking,” Grignon said.

The two museums will give the public the opportunity to learn about Menominee logging history and cultural history through a visual interpretation in the cultural museum, Grignon said.

“In the future, we would like to add a living historical Menominee village to the museum complex that will feature tribal members processing wild rice, making maple sugar, tanning hides, making black ash baskets and birch bark containers and making other traditional Menominee crafts in an historical atmosphere,” he said.

The Historic Preservation Office has been planning for a cultural museum for several years, Grignon said. The tribe will now have an environmentally controlled facility to house their precious artifacts, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony.

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