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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cups of cooked wild rice traditionally harvested from the Leech Lake reservation were handed out to Minnesota Senate committee members Tuesday by advocates of the state grain. A proposed bill would ...

ODANAH, Wisc. - I’m speeding along the Bad River in a flat-bottomed boat, wind whipping around us. Next to me sits Robert Blanchard, the 70-year-old tribal chairman and chief executive of the Bad ...

Minnesota wild rice bill heard March 10 would name psín and manoomin and recognize wild rice’s right to exist, citing treaty ...

Giiwewag. They are coming home. Manoominikwewag, or harvesting wild rice, is a deep connection back to water and land. Wild rice represents the foundation of a sustainable economy. The Anishinaabe ...

As the daughter of a Minnesotan and Michigander, I was raised on wild rice. For one, the long-grain marsh grass (not technically a rice) is a Midwestern staple, originally harvested by Native ...

VIRGINIA — The state’s decades-old wild rice sulfate standard is as central to miners’ fears as it is to environmental advocates’ hope. Steelworkers, contractors and others who rely on mining for ...