Jean Nicolet
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Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and being the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
1910 painting of Jean Nicolet's 1634 arrival in Wisconsin
1909 plaque commemorating Jean Nicolet's landing near Red Bank, Wisconsin.
A statue of Nicolet, built in 1951, is located in Wequiock Falls County Park in Brown County, Wisconsin.
Menominee
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The Menominee are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans officially known as the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. Their land base is the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. Their historic territory originally included an estimated 10 million acres (40,000 km2) in present-day Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The tribe currently has about 8,700 members.
Ball-headed War Club with Spike, Menominee, early 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Menomini dress at the Field Museum in Chicago
Spearing Salmon By Torchlight, an oil painting by Paul Kane. It features Menominee spearfishing at night by torchlight and canoe on the Fox River.