Wild rice is native to the northern United States and Canada growing naturally in streams and lakes in those regions. True wild rice is expensive, sold in small quantities often in specialty ...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to ...

To aid in restoration across the state, the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative, comprising tribes indigenous to the Great Lakes region, state officials, and academic experts, created a stewardship plan.

Groups in Michigan are fighting to preserve the future of Michigan’s indigenous wild rice. The Michigan Wild Rice initiative looks to protect the history of manoomin, a crop indigenous to the Great ...

Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and only the flowering head of the grass sticks up over the water's surface.

But aside from cooking her famous Ojibwe fried rice, Leah didn’t feel connected to the significance of Manoomin — a sacred plant revered ... by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Manoomin, meaning "the good berry," is a type of wild rice that has been harvested by the Ojibwe people in the Great Lakes region of North America for centuries.

Other threats Manoomin faces are from using improper boat speeds going through the wetlands, pollutants from mining like sulfate, pollutants from agriculture and invasive species like rice worm and ...

The court sided with the MPCA, which rejected U.S. Steel's request to allow sulfate levels nearly eight times higher than the standard for wild rice waters in Hay Lake.