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 ...
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 ...
BALL CLUB, Minn. -- It all starts with building a wood fire early in the morning to create the bed of glowing coals needed to parch rice through the day. John Hayes and John Beltman are tending the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to allow a downstream lake to have sulfate pollution nearly eight times higher ...
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 ...
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