A couple thousand years ago ... a long migration of Algonquian-speaking people settling in the wild rice lands around the Great Lakes. This became a central of our physical existence, spiritual ...

The Great Lakes region is a sprawling network of lakes, rivers, and wetlands that provide fertile ground for wild rice to flourish. This environment is a biological treasure trove, supporting ...

Wild rice once grew so thick on the lake, you couldn’t see the water from shore. Then in the 1990s, it started to disappear until it was gone altogether. Today’s reseeding is just a small part ...

Anecdotally, there have been reports on an inland lake in Minnesota of wild rice laying fallow nearly ... going back a thousand years in memory is just as important as jumping ahead a thousand ...

Tribal elder Roger LaBine, of Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, speaks Jan. 24, 2025, at Michigan State University about wild rice and a new ...

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 in Cass Lake.

State natural resources managers also planted wild rice in northern floodings along Lake Superior. Now collective efforts to bolster wild rice are coalescing under this new stewardship plan – a ...