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$3.6 million award helping Leech Lake Band keep their wild rice in one place

CASS LAKE, Minn. — The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing facility ...
Yahoo

Wild rice binds this tribe together. It’s under threat from every direction.

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 ...
inforum

A fall tradition: Bringing in the wild rice harvest

BALL CLUB, Minn. -- It all starts with building a wood fire early in the morning to create the bed of glowing coals needed to parch rice through the day. John Hayes and John Beltman are tending the ...
WKAR

From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities

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 ...
MinnPost

How wild rice has sustained the Ojibwe people

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Wild rice is a food of great historical, spiritual, and cultural importance for ...