ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...
Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low ...
DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...
The centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the reservation's five ricing lakes. The season opened Friday, and the ...
ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...