The materials in the collection consist mainly of manuscripts and visual materials, with the bulk of the material consisting of photographs and negatives. The entire date range spanned by the collection is 1968-1985.
The collection is divided into three series: OFFICE ADMINISTRATION, TRIBE RELATED RESEARCH, and VISUAL MATERIALS. The first two series consist mainly of textual materials. These series date from 1968-1975, and 1981-1985, with the bulk of the records dating to the period from 1968 to 1972. Although there is very little documentation involving the business aspect of the Menominee Tribal News, the OFFICE ADMINISTRATION series does provide some indication of the day-to-day running of this operation, including letters to the editor and budget requests. Correspondence from 1975-1979 is also found in this series, as well as a student report and a newsletter from the Menominee Tribal News.
The TRIBE RELATED RESEARCH series contains documents of the activities of some of the organizations and committees on the reservation, including the Enrollment Committee, Indian Control for Quality Education, Menominee Restoration Committee, and Menominee Indian Historical Foundation Inc., the outcome of the Tomow v. Menominee Enterprises Inc. trial and the Constitution and By-laws Committee. The bulk of the documents deal with various aspects of the fight for a school on Menominee land, run by Menominee people. Of particular interest are the documents relating to the formation of the Menominee County School District, including letters from students and parents in favor of a school on the reservation. Also included within this series are scrapbook pages of articles from Wisconsin area newspapers involving Menominee.
The material in the VISUAL MATERIALS series dates from 1976-1982 and contains photographs and negatives from the Menominee Tribal News. The dated files contain items from December 1976 through 1982. These items have been kept in the order in which they had been filed. The subject files are arranged by subject such as clinic, medical, hide tanning, miscellaneous employees, sports, and tribal police. The photographs depict daily life such as pow-wows, committee meetings, building projects, work being done at the mill, school and educational programs, sports and events of the community, and community life in general.
