EAST LANSING, MI – There’s a new plan to help restore and protect Michigan’s remaining native wild rice beds. Michigan’s wild rice, or manoomin stewardship plan was discussed in depth on Jan. 24 ...

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 ...

Mark Pero, left, of Solon Springs, uses knocker harvesting sticks to tap manoomin (wild rice) into his canoe as Valerie Ross Zhaawendaagozikwe, of Solon Springs, moves their canoe through the manoomin ...

Efforts to restore manoomin, Michigan’s native wild rice, are expanding in the eastern Upper Peninsula through new collaborations between the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and tribal ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, MI – The process of changing manoomin from a medicine to a food happens at rice camp. Indigenous experts shared their traditional ecological knowledge during a recent wild rice camp at ...

WAYLAND, MI — We don’t really agree on much anymore, but there is still one universal truth— people connect to their community and culture through food. “It's blood memory from thousands of years ago, ...

Wild Rice by KellyThorson via iStock for WMNF News. On Tuesday Cafe we aired a one-hour documentary produced by MPR and APM that is part of our recognition of Native American Heritage Month. In ...

Leanna Goose grew up ricing manoomin (wild rice) as a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. “Wild rice is culturally significant to Aniishinabe people here in Minnesota. It’s our connection to the ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL — Tuesday March 11, Indigenous rights and climate justice advocates from around the state gathered at the Capitol to meet with legislators. The effort was led by Rise and Repair, a grassroots ...