Members of Minnesota's Chippewa tribes will begin harvesting wild rice this week, off their reservations and without a state license, in an effort to gain affirmation of hunting, fishing and gathering ...

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

Boozhoo ("hello" in Ojibwe) and miigwech ("thank you") for reading the First Nations Wisconsin newsletter. Wild ricing season is upon us and harvesters will descend upon lakes and wetlands across the ...

RED WING, Minn. -- This year's late spring put many Minnesota crops behind schedule. Wild rice is no exception. As of early July, the rice crop -- which grows mainly in lakes, marshes and streams in ...

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...

ODANAH – As Ben Connors watched his two teenage boys this late summer load up the gear on the canoe to harvest wild rice on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in northern Wisconsin — and actually be ...

ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. – Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...

The centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the reservation's five ricing lakes. The season opened Friday, and the ...

Chinese scientists have identified a key gene in wild rice that controls perennial traits, a discovery that could allow cultivated rice to be harvested multiple times from a single planting and ...