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The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
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2004

Menominee Community Center of Chicago

Menominee Community Center of Chicago
MENOMINEE COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO

A unique partnership between an urban Indian center and a tribal government, the tribally funded Community Center serves nearly 500 Menominee tribal citizens living in the greater Chicago area. The Center and the tribal government work together to ensure that all of its citizens are actively involved in tribal affairs by organizing trips to the reservation, providing full electoral rights for off-reservation citizens, and by holding official tribal legislature meetings at the Center.

citizen education, elections, tribal legislature, urban indian center
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"Menominee Community Center of Chicago". Honoring Nations: 2003 Honoree. The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2004. Report. 

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