Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and ...

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 ...

The centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the reservation's five ricing lakes. The season opened Friday, and the ...

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...

Cultivation of wild rice faces decline from warmer winters, extreme weather and more. The cultivation of wild rice — manoomin in Ojibwe — has diminished in scale over centuries across northern ...

ODANAH – As Ben Connors watched his two teenage boys this late summer load up the gear on the canoe to harvest wild rice on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in northern Wisconsin — and actually be ...

A fresh pot of hand-harvested and processed wild rice is shared by students and faculty of Leech Lake Tribal College as a part of a traditional Ojibwe ceremony, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Cass Lake, ...

ST .PAUL -- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wildlife managers say it’s shaping up to be a good season for wild rice harvesting as the dry spring provided favorable water levels and rice beds ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...