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.

As an eagle circled above a section of the Au Sable River in Oscoda, Bay Mills Indian Community tribal member Dennis Carrick saw the symbolic greeting of the bird, sacred to Native Americans, as a ...

As the daughter of a Minnesotan and Michigander, I was raised on wild rice. For one, the long-grain marsh grass (not technically a rice) is a Midwestern staple, originally harvested by Native ...

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 ...

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 grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...

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 ...

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