[6] The Menominee Indian Reservation technically consists of both a 360.8 sq mi (934.5 km2) Indian reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin and an adjacent 1.96 sq mi (5.08 km2) plot of off-reservation trust land encompassing Middle Village in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin.

This means that the Menominee Nation or the federal government generally holds legal jurisdiction over tribal members for crimes and civil disputes that occur within the reservation boundaries.

The state still maintains jurisdiction over crimes on the reservation when neither the perpetrator nor the victim is a tribal member.

[14][15] Federal recognition of the Menominee tribe was terminated by the United States Congress in 1961.

[22] The types of trees harvested at the Menominee Indian Reservation include white ash, bigtooth aspen, quaking aspen, basswood, beech, eastern hemlock, eastern white pine, hard maple, pin oak, red oak, red pine, soft maple, and yellow birch.

[23] In August 2015 the Menominee Indian Reservation held advisory referendums on proposed measures to legalize medical and recreational cannabis.

[25] In October 2015, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents raided the reservation, taking or destroying 30,000 plants.

The Menominee said these were industrial hemp plants, the cultivation of which was authorized by federal law.

A restoration process will include prescribed burning to bring back native grass for the bison to feed on.