Actual rice is cultivated in paddies — quite different from wild rice. Since it grows in the wild, harvesting it is a bit more labor-intensive. If we're talking about looks: its grains are ...

From LeahConnecting with my Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior editor Leah Lemm walks with her son Marvin from his school bus stop on Jan. 2. So, she set out with a ...

For the Ojibwe people, harvesting this rice means much more ... More from So Expensive Manoomin, meaning "the good berry," is a type of wild rice that has been harvested by the Ojibwe people ...

Boozhoo. I’m Leah Lemm, citizen of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. I’m the senior editor of the Native News initiative at MPR ...

Harvester Roger LaBine operates a tribal harvesting toolRoger LaBine making a manoomin harvesting tool at the 2019 Wild Rice Camp in Alberta. He is the tribal delegate for the Michigan Wild Rice ...

Manoomin is Ojibwe for wild rice and translates to “good berry.” But many families and tribal communities rely on it for food sovereignty and to last them through the winter until the next harvest ...

To aid in restoration across the state, the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative, comprising tribes indigenous to the Great Lakes region, state officials, and academic experts, created a stewardship plan.

Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in the region around ...