In the only available wild rice spot on Lake Superior, Natives from different nations gather for the wild rice harvest season. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission brought their experts ...
Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...
Where does wild rice grow? Meet people who protect manoomin rice, a culturally critical plant, and the waters that sustain it. Leanna Goose (Anishinaabe) remembers wild rice, or manoomin, being served ...
The Senate State and Local Government Committee heard testimony this week about a proposal that would change the language around Minnesota's state grain, wild rice. The language includes adding both ...
Manoomin, a crop vital to the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Midwest, has been threatened in recent years. But careful stewardship is helping to bring it back. By Kevin Noble Maillard Reporting from ...