An environmental committee hearing at the Minnesota State Capitol veered into religion and protecting the unborn Thursday as ...

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 ...

When Roger LaBine was younger, he often drove his grandfather to the Ottawa National Forest to hunt porcupines. “In the fall ...

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 ...

Records show wild rice was common around the turn of the 20th century, but poor water quality caused die-offs in the 1980s. Today, it's making a big return on the river.

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 ...

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 ...

The hosts shared their meal of partridge, wild turkey ... venerated as a matter of course in Bali, where rice is the staple crop. During the harvest, villages are festooned with flags, and ...