A wild rice bed grows Sept. 12 on the Upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby, Wis. After disappearing for decades, wild rice is rebounding on parts of the upper ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ALL. WE ALL KNOW WILD RICE, RIGHT? WELL, IF ALL YOU’VE EVER TASTED IS THAT STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF A BOX WITH THE LITTLE SPICE PACK, YOU MIGHT BE IN FOR A SURPRISE. CHEF MARK SHEEHAN WAS. I WOULD SAY ...
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An environmental committee hearing at the Minnesota State Capitol veered into religion and fetus protections Thursday as lawmakers discussed a bill that would grant inherent rights to the state grain.
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Why Wild Rice Isn't Actually Rice

It never ceases to amaze me how you can be around something your entire life — work with it, cook with it, consume it — all ...
SHELBY, Wisconsin — If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water.