Lisa Lynn Ninham was a 17-year-old Native American female when she was last seen in Keshena, Wisconsin, on November 1, 1980, with her last known location tied to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Menominee County. Public missing-person records identify her as Lisa Lynn Ninham, missing from Keshena, and describe her as a young Indigenous woman whose disappearance began in a small reservation community where family, neighbors, and tribal authorities would be left with far more questions than
answers. The Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Missing & Exploited Children & Adults lists Lisa as missing since November 1, 1980, from Keshena, Wisconsin, with the Menominee Indian Reservation recorded as her last known location; the same listing identifies her as female, Indian, and now age 62.
The available public record gives only a narrow window into what happened before Lisa vanished. The Charley Project states that Lisa was last seen in Keshena, Wisconsin, on the Menominee Indian Reservation, on November 1, 1980, and that she has never been heard from again, with few details available in her case. Other online missing-person summaries repeat the same painful outline: Lisa was last seen on the reservation, there is very little public information about the circumstances, and no widely published account explains where she was going, who she may have been with, or what caused her disappearance to first be reported. Wisconsin Missing’s case page adds a brief but heartbreaking line, stating that Lisa left the house one day and never came back.
The details used to identify Lisa have varied somewhat across online sources, a common difficulty in older missing-person cases where records may have been incomplete, delayed, or updated over time. NamUs lists the case as Missing Person / NamUs #MP95010 and records Lisa’s date of last contact as November 1, 1980, from Keshena, Wisconsin. The Charley Project describes her as a Native American female with brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 150 pounds, and gives her date of birth as March 25, 1963. A Find a Grave memorial indexed online for Lisa Lynn Ninham lists her as born March 25, 1963, in Wisconsin, with a listed death date of November 1, 1980, at age 17, and notes cremation with the place of rest unknown; however, official missing-person sources continue to list her in missing-person records and do not provide public recovery circumstances.
As the years passed, Lisa’s disappearance became part of a larger and deeply painful pattern involving missing Indigenous people in Wisconsin and across the country. Native News Online reported in 2020 that Menominee Tribal leadership drew attention to Lisa Ninham’s case alongside other cases involving Menominee tribal citizens, noting that Lisa had gone missing 40 years earlier and that the community continued hoping for answers. Tribal Chairwoman Joan Delabreau spoke of missing Native people as a tragedy felt by families and the wider community, saying the disappearances had touched them all and that they hoped for a chance to bring their missing loved ones home. In 2025, Wisconsin Examiner reporting on a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives awareness event also listed Lisa Lynn Ninham of Menominee County among tribal members from Wisconsin and Minnesota who were officially remembered as murdered or missing.
The investigation listed in public sources remains connected to the Menominee Tribal Police Department, and the Wisconsin Clearinghouse directs anyone with information to contact Menominee Tribal Police or the Clearinghouse tip line. Lisa’s case is especially haunting because so much of her story is absent from the public record: no detailed final movements, no confirmed destination, no published clothing description, no known vehicle, and no clear sequence of events explaining how a 17-year-old girl disappeared from her own community and remained missing for decades. The case began with Lisa Lynn Ninham, a 17-year-old Native American girl last seen in Keshena on the Menominee Indian Reservation on November 1, 1980; it continued through years of uncertainty for those who knew and loved her; and its public overview remains one of a long-unsolved missing-person case in Menominee County, Wisconsin, where the available sources preserve her name, her last known place, and the continuing need for answers.Last Seen: Nov 1, 1980
