WKAR

From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities

Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...
WDIO

Teaching sustainable harvest skills for wild rice on Lake Superior

In the only available wild rice spot on Lake Superior, Natives from different nations gather for the wild rice harvest season. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission brought their experts ...
The New York Times

How Wild Rice Forecasts Climate Change

Manoomin, a crop vital to the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Midwest, has been threatened in recent years. But careful stewardship is helping to bring it back. By Kevin Noble Maillard Reporting from ...
AOL

Here's how Indigenous wild rice is helping restore wetlands in the Green Bay area

SUAMICO - As Cindy Reffke looks out across the Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve, she imagines the wild rice plants that have disappeared, but are now desperately needed to restore the environment and ...