WDIO

UW-S Students are learning how to gather and process Wild Rice

You don’t need to look very hard to see how much the Northland loves wild rice. But for many people, the rice has a greater importance than just tasting good. UW-S students are learning how to gather ...
WKAR

From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities

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 ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Oneida have never harvested wild rice. But 'the rice wants to be here,' so they're learning

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 ...
inforum

$3.6 million award helping Leech Lake Band keep their wild rice in one place

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 ...
PBS

Wild Rice in Minnesota

Andrew Zimmern joins this episode all about wild rice and its history. The most sacred food of the Anishinaabe people has become a prized ingredient in cuisine. Learn about the history of wild rice ...
The New York Times

How Wild Rice Forecasts Climate Change

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 ...