inforum

Native harvest: Wild rice key to tribe's way of life

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...
WZZM

Wild rice could become Michigan's official 'state native grain'

LANSING, Mich. — A bill that would make wild rice Michigan's official "state native grain," HB 4852, is expected to be signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer after passing both the House and Senate. The ...
Staten Island Advance

Michigan’s tribal experts want to save wild rice. Here’s how they’ll do it.

EAST LANSING, MI – There’s a new plan to help restore and protect Michigan’s remaining native wild rice beds. Michigan’s wild rice, or manoomin stewardship plan was discussed in depth on Jan. 24 ...
Yahoo

There's growing effort to reintroduce native manoomin wild rice to Michigan

Gunnar Nelson, of Brimley, works on using handmade cedar manoomin "wild rice" knockers to pull in plants and tap them, causing the ripened wild rice grains to fall into a canoe as Bay Mills Community ...
MLive

Tribal efforts lead to native wild rice as Michigan state symbol

After years of Indigenous voices elevating the importance of a native keystone aquatic plant called manoomin, it’s finally earning its place in Michigan history. Manoomin is the word in Native ...
MLive

State to sow seeds of native wild rice plan with Michigan tribes

Wild rice that grows in Michigan’s clearest and most pristine waters will be the focus of new state efforts to safeguard among the most culturally and ecologically important native plants in the upper ...
inforum

Wild rice in middle of genetic crop fight

ST. PAUL - A legislative proposal is being floated to protect Minnesota's native wild rice by delaying attempts to research modified varieties of the crop. The seemingly minor debate has sparked ...