TOWN OF SHELBY - 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. Today, ...
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 ...
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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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ODANAH, Wis. — 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 River ...
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 ...
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