1/2: Jeff Knapp bags the wild rice in his canoe after gathering rice near Green’s Point on the Mississippi River Wednesday. Brainerd Dispatch/Steve Kohls 2/2: Dick Wilken rices while Jeff Knapp poles ...

Sixth-grade students from Warroad, Minn., had the opportunity to learn about traditional wild rice gathering techniques Sept. 6 during a school field trip to Baudette Bay, a tributary of the Rainy ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Wild rice — or Manoomin as the Ojibwe call it — is one of the Midwest's most sacred plants. But extreme weather, from record snow to destructive floods, is having tangible consequences ...

Wild rice seeds float on the St. Louis River shortly after being thrown by Conservation Corps workers in Duluth.

Glen Jackson, Jr., an eleven-year-old Ojibway Indian in northern Minnesota, goes with his father to harvest wild rice, the sacred food of his people.

Wild rice truly is a wild, natural food. While several varieties exist, the most commonly available are Zizania palustris, or Northern wild rice, and Zizania aquatica, or wild rice. While it is now ...