Star Tribune

Environmental group calls for tighter water permit for coal plant that spilled next to rice beds

A northern Minnesota power plant that was the site of a massive ash-water spill last summer has for years legally pumped wastewater with even higher concentrations of sulfate than was detected in a ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

Wild rice dwindled in parts of the Upper Midwest. Now efforts are underway to bring it back

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...
MLive

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 ...
The Nation

For Decades, the Ojibwe Tribe Shunned Scientists—Until Their Partnership Became Vital

Joe Graveen, a member of the Ojibwe tribe and a wild rice technician on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin, stands with wild rice researcher Crystal Ng on Northerly Island in December 2022. ...
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 ...