operated a Las Vegas-style gaming casino, associated with bingo games and a hotel. The complex provides employment to numerous Menominee; approximately 79 percent of the Menominee Casino-Bingo-Hotel's 500 employees are ethnic Menominee or are spouses of Menominee. Notable Menominee Apesanahkwat – actor who starred in Babylon 5 and films Chrystos – a Two-Spirit-identified poet Alaqua Cox - actress, Hawkeye Ada Deer – activist and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, 1993–1997 Billie Frechette – lover of 1930s serial bank robber John Dillinger Mitchell Oshkenaniew – advocate for sovereignty and recognition by federal government Chief Oshkosh (1795–1858) – chief of Menominee during period of land cessions and restriction to reservation within Wisconsin Sheila Tousey – actress, Thunderheart (1995) Ingrid Washinawatok – Co-founder, Fund for the Four Directions, indigenous activist; killed in 1999 in Colombia by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Notes References Beck, David R. M. (2005). The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians Since 1854. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Boatman, John (1998). Wisconsin American Indian History and Culture. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing. Davis, Thomas (2000). Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York. Loew, Patty (2001). Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Nichols, Phebe Jewell (Mrs. Angus F. Lookaround). Oshkosh The Brave: Chief of the Menominees, and His Family. Menominee Indian Reservation, 1954. Further reading Nancy Lurie (1972), "Menominee Termination: From Reservation to Colony," Human Organization, 31: 257–269 Nancy Lurie (1987), "Menominee Termination and Restoration," in Donald L. Fixico, ed., An Anthology of Western Great Lakes Indians History (Milwaukee: American Indian Studies Program): 439–478 External links Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Menominee Language Lessons The Menominee Clans Story at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Perey, "The Menominee Myth of the Flood – in Relation to Life Today", Anthropology.net "Treaties between the United States and the Menominee", Menominee website "Menominee", Indian Country, Milwaukee Public Museum Mitchell A. Dodge papers on the Menominee Indian Tribe, MSS 1538 in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Native American tribes in Wisconsin Menominee County, Wisconsin Algonquian peoples Great Lakes tribes Algonquian ethnonyms Native American tribes in Michigan